Patents Assigned to Konica
  • Publication number: 20230173822
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an ink-jet head including a storage that stores phase transition ink, the ink jet head forms an image on a recording medium by ejecting the phase transition ink; and one or more hardware processors. The one or more hardware processors change a driving condition of the ink jet head for a case of ejecting the phase transition ink on a basis of a first reading result of a pattern image formed by the ink-jet head; estimate occurrence of a state change of the phase transition ink in the storage when the driving condition that is changed satisfies a predetermined condition; and determine whether a lifetime of the ink jet head is over in accordance with whether the occurrence of the state change is estimated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro UMEDA, Yusuke NISHISAKA, Hiroshi AKITA
  • Publication number: 20230176510
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that forms an image on a continuous paper; a fixing unit that includes a pair of rotatable members and that nips the continuous paper between the rotatable members to convey the paper and fix the image formed on the paper by the image former; a conveying member different from the rotatable members; and a hardware processor. The image forming apparatus performs a paper conveying mode in which the image former does not form an image and at least the conveying member conveys the continuous paper. In the paper conveying mode, the hardware processor determines to press the rotatable members against each other or to separate the rotatable members from each other according to a predetermined criterion and, based on the determination, conveys the continuous paper while keeping the rotatable members pressed against each other or separated from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Takashi YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11670204
    Abstract: A residual DC measurement device of the present invention receives light emitted from a display device and outputs a light reception signal, measures a flicker value of the display device on the basis of the light reception signal output while the flicker measurement image is displayed by the display device and stores the flicker value in a storage as an initial flicker value, subsequently causes the display device to display a predetermined display image for a predetermined display time, causes the display device to display the flicker measurement image again when the predetermined display time elapses, measures the flicker value of the display device on the basis of the light reception signal output while the flicker measurement image is displayed and stores the flicker value in the storage as a posterior flicker value, and calculates a flicker change amount by calculating the posterior flicker value stored in the storage and the initial flicker value as an index value representing the residual DC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11666308
    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus including an ultrasound probe which outputs transmission ultrasound corresponding to a drive signal, which receives reflected ultrasound from the subject and which outputs a received signal according to the reflected ultrasound; a drive signal outputter which outputs the drive signal to the ultrasound probe; a hardware processor which controls the drive signal outputter to output a first drive signal having a first drive waveform and a second drive signal having a second drive waveform that is different from the first drive waveform; a received signal generator which generates a first received signal based on the reflected ultrasound corresponding to the transmission ultrasound that is output based on the first drive signal and a second received signal based on the reflected ultrasound corresponding to the transmission ultrasound that is output based on the second drive signal; and an extractor which extracts by arithmetic of the first received signal and the second received
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Tetsuya Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20230166932
    Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes: a placer that allows a plurality of sheets to be placed on the placer; an air feeder including a front-end fan that generates an airflow from a front-edge side in a sheet feeding direction of a bundle of sheets placed on the placer toward the bundle of sheets; an attracting conveyor that attracts an uppermost sheet separated by the air feeder from the bundle of sheets placed on the placer and conveys the uppermost sheet; a detector that detects, in the conveyance of the uppermost sheet by the attracting conveyor, an amount of co-feeding of a next sheet together with the uppermost sheet; and a hardware processor that executes air-volume control to the front-end fan such that an air volume of the front-end fan increases with an increase in the amount of co-feeding detected by the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Michio TAKAHASHI, Yusuke YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230168990
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a converter that applies unidirectional one-to-one conversion to possible target data that has a possibility of becoming a target of legal regulations; and a log outputter that outputs a debug log including conversion result data obtained by the one-to-one conversion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shin OHBA
  • Patent number: 11662348
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for detecting an antibody-drug-conjugate and relates to a method for determining the efficacy of an antibody-drug-conjugate with high accuracy by a quantitative technique for identifying an expression level of a target molecule in a target cell of the antibody-drug-conjugate and interactions therebetween. According to the method, visualizing a drug and an antibody, or components of an antibody-drug-conjugate, by immunostaining with a phosphor integrated dot enables detection of the antibody-drug-conjugate and the components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Masaru Takahashi, Takeshi Shiraishi, Noboru Koyama
  • Patent number: 11653901
    Abstract: There is provided an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus including: a first hardware processor that generates ultrasound image data based on a reception signal obtained through an ultrasound probe; a display; a second hardware processor that causes the display to display the generated ultrasound image data; and a console that has a plurality of physical operation devices that receive an operation input. The second hardware processor registers display position information, which is information regarding a display position within a display screen of a guide including an operation display component corresponding to each operation device of the console and information indicating a function set for the operation device, in a storage and displays the guide on the display based on the display position information stored in the storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Kimoto, Toshio Oka
  • Patent number: 11653898
    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus generates and displays an ultrasound image corresponding to reflected ultrasound reflected inside a subject. The ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes a hardware processor that generates a B-mode image based on a reception signal corresponding to the reflected ultrasound, analyzes the B-mode image and determines an operation status of a treatment instrument used for treatment, and based on a result of the determination, displays a first display image including a current B-mode image and a second display image including a B-mode image obtained when the treatment instrument is in a non-operating state in such a manner that the first display image and second display image are aligned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Kazuya Takagi
  • Patent number: 11653902
    Abstract: An ultrasound image diagnostic apparatus includes: a power source control section that supplies power to a power source section which performs supply of power to each part of the ultrasound image diagnostic apparatus; a battery that supplies the power to the power source control section: an external power supply section that supplies, to the power source control section, the power supplied from outside of the ultrasound image diagnostic apparatus; and a power supply control section that controls supply of power from the battery and the external power supply section to the power source control section based on an operation state of the ultrasound image diagnostic apparatus and the presence or absence of the power supplied from the external power supply section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Muramatsu, Kazuya Osada, Yasuhiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20230153558
    Abstract: A processing device including a hardware processor that: determines a dot position at which a dot is to be generated by multiple recording elements arranged in a first direction on a medium which moves relative to the recording elements in a second direction crossing the first direction, based on tone data for each pixel of an image to be formed; determines a corrected dot number that is a number of a dot position by a malfunctioning recording element to which an offset number is added, wherein the malfunctioning recording element is set as a recording element by which a dot is not generated normally among the recording elements; and determines the corrected dot number of a dot position within a dot generation possible range by a recording element other than the malfunctioning recording element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Masahiro KOUZAKI, Koji WASHIO
  • Publication number: 20230151197
    Abstract: Provided is a halogen-free resin composition including a polyolefin resin, containing a phosphorus compound in an amount of 0.05 to 2.5 mass % as a phosphorus content; a NOR-type hindered amine in an amount of 0.05 to 5 mass %; and an inorganic filler in an amount of 3 to 50 mass %, respectively, with respect to the total amount of the resin composition, wherein a DTA (Differential Thermal Analysis) curve obtained by differential thermal analysis of the inorganic filler has an endothermic portion in a temperature range of 180 to 500° C.; and in the inorganic filler, a ratio value of a number of particles having a maximum diameter of 300 ?m or more to a number of particles having a maximum diameter of 100 ?m or more is ? or less, or there are no particles having a maximum diameter of 100 ?m or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yo NAKAJIMA, Masashi MAMINO, Takeshi KOJIMA, Yuuki NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20230152476
    Abstract: A radiation detecting device includes a radiation detector and a supporter. The radiation detector includes a substrate that has flexibility and a semiconductor element formed on an imaging surface of the substrate. The supporter is formed of foam and supports the radiation detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Junichiro OTAKI, Takafumi MATSUO, Makoto SUMI, Hajime ISHIMOTO, Masaki SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11648769
    Abstract: Provided is an ink jet recording method in which an image is formed by applying an ink containing a coloring material and a processing liquid containing a flocculant to a surface of a recording medium by a droplet discharge device to coalescence, wherein an application amount of the processing liquid is changed in accordance with an application amount of the ink for each unit area, and is controlled to be 5 g/m2 or less in all of the unit areas in which the images are formed, and when the image is formed in a plurality of printing passes, an average value of the application amounts of the processing liquid in each printing pass in the unit areas in which the application amount of the processing liquid is 0.8 g/m2 or more is controlled so that a deviation when compared between the printing passes is within ±30%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Naoto Niizuma
  • Patent number: 11648771
    Abstract: The present invention discharges ink from a plurality of inkjet heads and is used when performing drive whereby one droplet or a plurality of droplets are discharged onto and united on one pixel. A drive signal includes a drive waveform comprising N number (N being an integer of at least 2) of drive waveform elements and is configured so as to fulfil the relationship 1.1 Tc?Ts?1.4 Tc, when Tc is the natural vibration cycle determined from the inkjet head structure and Ts is the time from the start point of the drive waveform to the start point of the subsequent drive waveform. As a result, velocity deviation caused by the resonant frequency of a piezoelectric actuator driving the inkjet head can be suppressed when driving an inkjet head using multiple gradations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Kenji Mawatari
  • Patent number: 11652243
    Abstract: A non-destructive inspection method of inspecting an inspection target using multiple different types of non-destructive inspection means that include one non-destructive inspection means and at least one other non-destructive inspection means. The method includes determining a marking position on the inspection target in a detection result by the one non-destructive inspection means, causing a device to store the marking position, and fixedly forming a mark on the inspection target corresponding to the marking position. The mark is detectable by the other non-destructive inspection means. The method further includes causing the other non-destructive inspection means to inspect an inspection target including the mark. The method further includes contrasting detection results by the multiple different types of non-destructive inspection means in reference to the mark which is the marking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignees: KONICA MINOLTA, INC, SPIN SENSING FACTORY CORP.
    Inventors: Masahiro Imada, Takuji Hatano, Koujirou Sekine, Masaaki Tsuchida, Tsukasa Yagi
  • Patent number: 11652928
    Abstract: An operation setting selection apparatus includes, a physical property obtainer which obtains physical property information of a recording medium on which an image is formed; and a hardware processor. The hardware processor obtains from first information, in which operation failure information regarding contents of operation failure which occurs when an image forming operation is performed is associated to the physical property information of the recording medium used when the operation failure occurs and the operation setting regarding the image forming, the operation setting and the operation failure information associated to the physical property information obtained by the physical property obtainer. The hardware processor performs operation regarding selection of the operation setting regarding the image forming operation on the recording medium based on the physical property information, the operation setting and the operation failure information which are obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Naoto Kubo
  • Patent number: 11651747
    Abstract: Provided with: a detecting means to detect a possible light intensity changing frequency of a measuring object; a frequency determining means to determine a light intensity changing frequency with reference to the possible light intensity changing frequency; a resolution determining means to determine a frequency resolution for flicker measuring with reference to the determined light intensity changing frequency; and a flicker measuring means to conduct flicker measuring with the determined frequency resolution. The resolution determining means determines the frequency resolution to be an integral submultiple of the light intensity changing frequency determined by the frequency determining means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Satoshi Masuda
  • Publication number: 20230142155
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a first hardware processor that sets cooperative processing including first processing and second processing that cooperate with each other in a server that provides a service that determines the cooperative processing; a second hardware processor that receives a command to execute the first processing; a third hardware processor that generates alternative processing in place of the first processing in a case where it is detected that the command cannot be received after the cooperative processing has been set; and a fourth hardware processor that executes the alternative processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Megumi MIURA
  • Patent number: D987716
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Shigeru Sawano, Naoki Nonoyama