Patents Assigned to Konica Minolta, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20230294406
    Abstract: An inkjet recorder includes: a drum that is rotatable about a rotation axis and conveys a recording medium; a head unit including an ejection surface that ejects ink that forms an image on the medium conveyed to the drum, the head unit being movable between a recording position at which the ejection surface faces the drum and a cleaning position separated from the recording position in a direction parallel to the rotation axis; and a cleaning unit that is disposed at a position being adjacent to the drum in the direction parallel to the rotation axis and facing the ejection surface of the head unit located at the cleaning position, and cleans the ejection surface, wherein the head unit includes heads having the ejection surface, the cleaning unit includes a cleaning member, the cleaning member has a cleaning surface, and the cleaning surface cleans the ejection surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Satoshi CHIKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230290469
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing instructions to control a computer of an information processing apparatus that processes information obtained from a patient terminal connectable to a healthcare worker terminal and to an electronic prescription server that stores electronic prescription information and dispensing information, the instructions causing the computer to execute: obtaining, from the patient terminal, the dispensing information associated with the electronic prescription information; obtaining, from the patient terminal, medicine taking information on a patient; associating the dispensing information and the medicine taking information with each other and creating integrated information; and outputting the integrated information to the healthcare worker terminal or the patient terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Moeko Hagiwara, Akira Shimauchi
  • Publication number: 20230286162
    Abstract: A posture of a component is to be accurately determined. A posture determination method is to determine, based on an image acquired for a component having a plurality of surfaces, a posture of the component. This posture determination method includes recognizing an outer shape of the component from the image, detecting a feature amount of a surface shape in a determination area being a part of the component based on the outer shape of the component recognized in the recognizing, and determining. In the determining, the posture of the component is determined by comparing a first reference amount indicating a reference feature amount in the determination area of a first surface of the component and a second reference amount indicating a reference feature amount in the determination area of a second surface of the component with the feature amount detected in the detecting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoyoshi YUKIMOTO, Yasuyuki KAMAI, Shigeki NOZAWA, Harumitsu FUJIMORI, Kohei HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230288831
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image former that forms a color image by superimposing images of respective colors formed on respective different photoconductors on an intermediate transfer body, the image former continuously forming color images of pages on one continuous paper, and the image forming apparatus includes: a first hardware processor that performs job management for each color and generates print job data in which a margin region having a first width is set on an upstream or a downstream in a sheet passing direction of an image forming region of each page; a second hardware processor that detects a color shift amount of each color of the image forming region; and a third hardware processor that corrects a formation position of the image forming region to be a print target page next on the print job data for a color in which a color shift has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Yuji UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230272537
    Abstract: A functional film that has a hydrophilic property or an antifog property and that is formed on a base material includes a fluorine-containing layer that contains fluorine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Kazunari TADA
  • Publication number: 20230273067
    Abstract: A photometer includes a luminous flux splitter that splits a luminous flux incident from a single light receiving optical system and guides the luminous flux to a finder optical system and a photometric part. A light receiver is arranged at a position to receive at least a part of light split into the finder optical system by the luminous flux splitter and generates an output for light emission profile analysis according to a light reception result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yukitroy WILLIAMS, Yutaka KADOWAKI
  • Publication number: 20230273330
    Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus that images a radiation image includes, a radiation detector that includes a substrate with flexibility and a semiconductor element that is formed on an imaged surface of the substrate; a battery that supplies power to the radiation imaging apparatus; and a case that includes a front surface portion facing the imaging surface of the radiation detector and a rear surface portion facing the front surface portion with the radiation detector in between, wherein the case stores the radiation detector and the battery. The battery is positioned in a position in which a center of the battery is toward a center of the case between an edge of the case and the center of the case and the battery supports the radiation detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Junichiro OTAKI, Masaki SUZUKI, Makoto SUMI
  • Publication number: 20230274443
    Abstract: An estimation device and an estimation method are capable of detecting whether or not gas is flowing in a distal-proximal direction from a viewpoint even in a case where gas monitoring is performed on the basis of only an image from one viewpoint. The gas migration estimation device includes: an image input unit that receives, as an input, a gas distribution moving image in which a presence range of gas leaked into a space is indicated as a gas region; and a gas migration estimation unit that estimates a migration state of gas in a distal-proximal direction corresponding to the gas distribution moving image received by the image acquisition unit, by using an estimation model that is machine-learned using a combination of a training gas distribution moving image and a migration state of gas in a distal-proximal direction in the training gas distribution moving image as training data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Motohiro ASANO, Takashi MORIMOTO, Shunsuke TAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230273329
    Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus that images a radiation image includes a radiation detector that detects radiation; a supporter that includes charging material and that supports the radiation detector, a conductive layer provided between the radiation detector and the supporter, an electronic circuit; and an electric wiring that passes a lateral surface of the supporter and that connects the radiation detector with the electronic circuit. The conductive layer is positioned on a surface of the supporter outside a plan view region of the radiation detector in a position facing at least a portion of the electric wiring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Junichiro OTAKI, Masaki SUZUKI, Hajime ISHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230265274
    Abstract: A flame-retardant resin composition includes an acidic polysaccharide and a flame retardant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kosuke NAKAMURA, Shinichi HAMAGUCHI, Tomoo SAKIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230267741
    Abstract: An analysis system includes: a terminal that comprises a terminal controller; and a server that comprises a server controller and a communication interface, the terminal controller acquiring original data, converting the original data into a plurality of pieces of small data each having a size smaller than a size of each piece of the original data and into certainty factors of respective pieces of the small data, and transmitting the small data to the server, and the server controller receiving the small data from the terminal via the communication interface, executing analysis using the small data, and outputting an analysis result of the analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoya Okazaki, Nozomu Tanaka, Naoki Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20230256750
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an inkjet head; an ink reservoir that stores ink circulating between the inkjet head and the ink reservoir; a pressure generating unit that communicates with the inkjet head and generates a first pressure such that an internal pressure of the ink reservoir becomes the first pressure; and a first fluid resistor that gives resistance to a fluid flowing through a fluid communication path between the ink reservoir and the pressure generating unit such that the internal pressure of the ink reservoir becomes a second pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Yusuke Kuramochi
  • Publication number: 20230260115
    Abstract: A recording medium storing a computer-readable program for modifying a dynamic analysis algorithm that performs dynamic analysis to a dynamic image, the program causing a computer to perform: a process of receiving, from a first data collection device, a first data set that is anonymized and includes a first dynamic image obtained by dynamic imaging with radiation on a first subject and information obtained by a first test other than the dynamic imaging on the first subject; a process of receiving, from a second data collection device, a second data set that is anonymized and includes a second dynamic image obtained by dynamic imaging with radiation on a second subject and information obtained by a second test other than the dynamic imaging on the second subject; and a process of modifying the dynamic analysis algorithm based on the first data set and the second data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi ITO
  • Publication number: 20230260118
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores a program that causes a computer to perform an obtaining process, an analyzing process, and an extracting process. In the obtaining process, the computer obtains a radiographic moving image showing a motion of a specific part of an examinee. In the analyzing process, the computer analyzes the radiographic moving image obtained in the obtaining process. In the extracting process, the computer extracts, among frames constituting the radiographic moving image, a specific frame that visibly shows a detection target in the specific part, based on a result of analyzing a dynamic state of the specific part in the analyzing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Noritsugu MATSUTANI, Sumiya NAGATSUKA, Yuki KAWANA
  • Publication number: 20230252635
    Abstract: A radiographic imaging apparatus includes a hardware processor that acquires rounds imaging information related to radiographic imaging of an imaging subject when making rounds, and outputs, based on the acquired rounds imaging information, decision support information supporting a decision regarding whether radiograph data generated by the radiographic imaging satisfies a prescribed image quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi HASEGAWA, Naoki HAYASHI, Mao EGUCHI, Keisuke KOEDA
  • Publication number: 20230235217
    Abstract: A luminescent compound has a structure represented by a general formula (1), wherein R represents a luminescent dye skeleton, X represents an ionic substituent, and L represents a single bond, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a selenium atom, or an NH group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shumpei Hitosugi
  • Publication number: 20230205470
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus enables utilizing an output of proof printing as an output of final printing, wherein the image forming apparatus includes an image former forming an image on a sheet, an image reader reading an image formed on the sheet, and a controller, wherein the controller acquires a determination result of whether or not a sheet, on which an image read by the image reader is formed before the final printing by the image former in order to create a reference image to be used for inspecting an output matter of a printing job, can be used for an output matter of the final printing and controls the number of sheets or copies on which the images are to be formed using the image former at the final printing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Yoko SHIRAKI
  • Patent number: 11687026
    Abstract: A seal bearing includes: a bearing part configured to bear and hold a shaft such that the shaft is rotatable; and a seal part made of elastomer and combined with the bearing part. The seal part is joined to an end surface among two end surfaces of the bearing part. The two end surfaces are adjacent to a bearing surface of the bearing part in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Ehara, Hajime Mori
  • Patent number: 11681254
    Abstract: A resin sliding bearing includes: a bearing surface for slidingly bearing a shaft; and a hollow that communicates with the bearing surface through to a different surface of the bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Ehara, Hajime Mori
  • Publication number: 20230182289
    Abstract: A picking device includes: a workpiece holder in which a plurality of workpieces is stacked; a light receiver that receives reflected light from a workpiece stacked in the workpiece holder; a mover that relatively moves the light receiver with respect to the workpiece in such a manner that a distance between the light receiver and the workpiece is adjustable; an arm that picks the workpiece; a first hardware processor that calculates a distance between the light receiver and at least one workpiece among the plurality of workpieces; a second hardware processor that specifies a workpiece as a picking target among the plurality of workpieces or a region where the workpiece exists; and a third hardware processor that adjusts a distance between the light receiver and the workpiece calculated by the first hardware processor by controlling the mover in the region specified by the second hardware processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki KAMAI, Yusuke MURAKAMI, Daichi SUZUKI, Akihiro NAKAMURA, Tomoyoshi YUKIMOTO