Patents Assigned to Konica
  • Patent number: 4937634
    Abstract: A reproducing machine with a document feeding apparatus in which a document on a document stacker can be fed repeatedly after it is returned to the document stacker through a document feeding portion and a processing unit, and a feeding speed of the document can be varied by a control device. The feeding speed of the document when a single copy is required and the feeding speed of the document in a first cycle of copying when plural copies are required are set slower than that of the document in following cycles when plural copies are required in which the speed is set to a value as high as the processing power of the reproduction machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1990
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Tsugio Hirabayashi, Yasushi Yamada, Yoshikazu Maekawa
  • Patent number: 4937178
    Abstract: The present inventions relate to a processing method for processing, with a developing time of not more than 180 seconds, a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support, provided thereon, with at least one silver halide emulsion layer, and at least one emulsion layer containing silver iodo-bromide with not less than 0.5 mole% of silver iodine, in particular to an active processing method wherein, a light-sensitive material B not only containing silver iodo-bromide with an iodine content of not less than 0.5 mole% but also a magenta coupler and providing a maximum magenta density, after exposed, and being capable of only satisfying the maximum magenta dye density M of M<2.0 if exposed under specific conditions and then subjected to color developing of a duration of three minutes 15 seconds at 38.degree. C. with a specific developer solution, is capable of offering a maximum magenta density satisfying M.gtoreq.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1990
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeharu Koboshi, Satoru Kuse, Masayuki Kurematsu, Moeko Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 4935941
    Abstract: A single data recovery integrated circuit is used to achieve a data recovery system which can operate at multiple selected frequencies. A time delay adjustment circuit is connected to the data recovery IC and sets the time delay. A frequency controller circuit is connected to the data recovery IC and sets the data recovery IC at the desired frequency. A frequency adjustment circuit is connected to the data recovery IC and adjusts an oscillator of the data recovery IC. A stabilizer circuit is connected to the frequency controller circuit and the data recovery IC and ensures the integrity of the phase locked loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1990
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventor: William H. Jones
  • Patent number: 4935780
    Abstract: A document feeding apparatus having both an automatic and manual feed mode. the apparatus includes a paper feeding belt for feeding documents from a stack set on a document stacker, wherein the lowermost document in the stack is fed, and a stop roller placed in contact with an upper surface of the paper feeding belt to prevent the overlapped feed of documents. Documents are fed through a common paper path in both modes. The belt and roller are commonly used in both the automatic and manual document feed modes. In the automatic document feed mode, the belt is driven while the roller is held in a non-rotational state. In the manual document feed mode, the belt is driven and the roller is driven by the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1990
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Yamada, Tsugio Hirabayashi, Susumu Okui, Hirofumi Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 4935327
    Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic image is disclosed, which is not likely cause fogs, toner flying, and solid-black non-uniformity when used for a large number of cpying cycles in a high temperature, high humidity. The toner comprises a polyester resin containing a trivalent or higher monomer as a polymerized component and an antioxidant. As the antioxidant, a compound having a hidered phenolic group is preferably used as the antioxidant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1990
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshio Takizawa, Jiro Takahashi, Akitoshi Matsubara, Satoru Ikeuchi
  • Patent number: 4933717
    Abstract: A document feeder installed on an electrophotographic copying machine, and this document feeder having transport rollers driven by a drive unit to carry a document sheet. The document feeder comprises a flexible sheet having holes, and being installed over a platen glass. The document feeder also comprises document transport rollers which come into contact with a document sheet on the platen glass through the holes in the flexible sheet in order to carry the document sheet on the platen glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunobu Miura, Mitsuru Nagoshi, Minoru Kawano, Kazushige Murata
  • Patent number: 4932356
    Abstract: An apparatus for developing a latent image formed on a photoreceptor constituted a container for storing developer, a toner feeder for replenishing toner, a sensor for measuring the toner concentration in the developer, a memory for storing a reference measurement lying only with a certain range and which is obtained by measuring a reference developer having a reference toner concentration by the sensor, and a controller for controlling a toner concentration of the current developer by operating the toner feeder so that a current measurement obtained by the sensor becomes equal to the reference measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Watanabe, Toshifumi Isobe, Yukio Okamoto
  • Patent number: 4933698
    Abstract: An automatic developing machine for a disk film comprises, a passage of a cartridge or the disk film, a sensor to detect whether the cartridge or the disk film exists in a portion of the passage or not, and means for controlling operation of the machine according to a signal sent from the sensor. The automatic developing machine mentioned above further comprises a cartridge opener, and the sensor detects whether the disk film has been taken out from the cartridge by the cartridge opener or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Kurematsu, Shigeharu Koboshi
  • Patent number: 4931372
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor is disclosed, which is improved in layer casting property, mechanical strength and scratch and abrasion resistance, and also improved in electric property in repetitive use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1990
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Takei, Eiichi Sakai
  • Patent number: 4931383
    Abstract: Silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed, which is improved in color reproducibility and in fastness of magenta images to light, heat and humidity. The photographic material a magenta coupler represented by Formula (M-1) and a compound represented by Formula (XI) or Formula (XII). ##STR1## In formulas (XI) and (XII) X.sup.1 is an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or an --NR.sup.10 --; X.sup.2 represents a hydroxyl sulfur atom; R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 each represent a substituent having a .sigma. p value of not more than -0.25; M represents a metal atom; and a and b each represent an integer of 0 to 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1990
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi Sugita, Satoshi Nakagawa, Naoko Shimada
  • Patent number: 4931824
    Abstract: A camera boosting circuit includes an oscillating transistor, a depletion FET, an oscillating boosting circuit, and a control circuit. The oscillating transistor converts a DC voltage of a camera power source battery into an AC voltage. The oscillating boosting circuit converts the DC voltage into an AC voltage together with the oscillating transistor, boosts the AC voltage using a transformer, and obtains a high DC voltage by rectifying the boosted AC voltage. The control circuit controls an oscillating operation of the transistor by ON/OFF-operating the FET.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1990
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 4931829
    Abstract: Disclosed is a trimming device for use with a photographic printer having a fixed window mask unchangeable in size and a variable window mask having a movable window frame for changing a window size. Each window of the fixed window mask and the variable window mask is shaped symmetrically in the optical axis of exposure light so that exposure light is projected through smaller window among the fixed window mask and the variable window mask. There is provided a film guide plate for guiding a film frame to be printed into exposure light. The film guide plate is adapted to allow a film frame to move in X and Y directions, and the movable window frame is also adapted to change a window size in the both X and Y direction, Symmetrically in the optical axis of exposure light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1990
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventor: Haruo Hakamada
  • Patent number: 4929979
    Abstract: According to a method and apparatus for processing an image, density data representing a density of each pixel of original image data and color data representing a color of each pixel are generated. The density and color data are generated as parallel data. A write mode of a memory is set. A memory content is repeated updated in correspondence with the density data and the color data. A read mode of the memory is set. A memory content corresponding to one of the color data is externally read out. Threshold values are set in units of color data on the basis of the memory content read out from the memory. Recording density data having a smaller number of bits is formed by the set threshold values on the basis of the density data. Recording is performed on the basis of the formed recording density data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1990
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuo Kimoto, Yoshinori Abe
  • Patent number: 4929593
    Abstract: A thermal transfer recording material is disclosed which comprises a combination of (i) a thermal transfer recording medium comprising a support and provided thereon a specific heat softening colorant layer and (ii) a recording sheet comprising a support and provided thereon a specific image-receiving layer, in which any one of the heat softening colorant layer and the image-receiving layer contains a curable polymer, and the other of them contains a curing agent. The thermal transfer recording material can form the printed image having superior abrasion resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1990
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Tezuka, Kunihiro Koshizuka, Takao Abe
  • Patent number: 4928562
    Abstract: Disclosed is a film perforator having a punch unit, a pad roller and a feed roller which are disposed at the upstream side of the punch unit and support a film by nipping it between them, and a sprocket which is disposed at the downstream side of the punch unit and comes into engagement with punch-finished perforations, the sprocket and the feed rollers are connected by a pulley and the line speed of the sprocket is adjsuted to be a little higher than that of the feed rollers so that the film is caused to slip from its nipped position between the feed roller and the pad roller, whereby the film is exerted with backward tension so as to keep its proper flatness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1990
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Toyokiti Tanimura, Masahiro Ikeda
  • Patent number: 4928826
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cartridge for packaging a roll film. The cartridge has a film outlet that is composed of upper and lower lips, each lip has a light-shielding ribbon attached to the inside thereof. Both extended side edge portions of the ribbon attached to the lower lip are slightly bent downwardly. Both extended side portions of the ribbon attached to the upper lip are also bent downwardly at a slightly larger angle than that of the lower lip. Consequently both side edge portions of both upper and lower lips overlap in a more complete manner or are more positively joined together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1990
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Shibazaki, Yorikatu Miyazawa, Toshio Kato
  • Patent number: 4927693
    Abstract: A thermal transfer recording medium having an anchor layer containing a resin component and carbon black between a thermally fusible colorant layer and a support and its manufacturing method are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1990
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Kunihiro Koshizuka, Toshiaki Tezuka, Takao Abe, Harue Ebisawa
  • Patent number: 4928192
    Abstract: A process for identifying disks and automatically configuring a disk drive system to any one of a variety of disk patterns as embedded in firmware in a controller of a disk drive system. The process distinguishes between embedded servo and nonembedded servo disks by searching for servo patterns on the disk. Distinction between high and low density type disks is made by reading the disks at different data rates. After the type of disk is determined, a controller is enabled to set the disk drive system in the proper mode for that type of disk. The process also enables the controller to find the disk format values on the disk, or provides the standard values for the particular type of disk if the information is not located on the disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1990
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth G. Bartlett, Per-Erik Walberg
  • Patent number: 4925783
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material having at least one layer comprising a silver halide photographic emulsion, wherein the silver halide photographic emulsion is obtained by addition of a spectral sensitizing dye during the desalting step in obtaining the emulsion.According to the present invention, there can be obtained a highly sensitive light-sensitive material with little stain, good pressure blackening performance and yet great absorption of the dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1990
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Iku Metoki, Chika Honda, Yasunori Wada
  • Patent number: 4925780
    Abstract: A direct positive silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material comprising, on a support, (1) at least three light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers containing internal latent image-type light-sensitive silver halide grains, (2) specific sensitizing dyes having formulas [I], [II] and [III], respectively defined in the specification, and (3) at least one anti-irradiation compound selected from the group consisting of those compounds having formulas [IV], [V] and [VI], respectively defined in the specification, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1990
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Tomimi Yoshizawa, Keiji Ogi, Atushi Kamitakahara