Patents Assigned to Konica
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Patent number: 8472824Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a cleaning blade provided on an intermediate transfer member to which a toner image formed on at least one image forming section is primary transferred and on a secondary transfer section which transfers the toner image transferred on the intermediate transfer member onto a transfer material, respectively, which cleans the toner image remained thereon, respectively; a bias power source which is electrically connected to the secondary transfer section; and a controller which causes the image forming section to form a patch toner image onto a non-image area on the image carrier corresponding to an area between adjoining two transfer materials, and causes the bias power source to conduct a power control in synchronization with a positional movement timing of the patch toner image, to supply selectively the patch toner image to the intermediate transfer member and the secondary transfer section.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Hideo Yamaki, Yusuke Nishisaka
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Patent number: 8470448Abstract: An acryl resin-containing film which is transparent and highly heat-resistant and has been significantly improved in brittleness is disclosed, satisfying the following equations (1) to (4), exhibiting a tension softening point of 105 to 145° C. and a photoelastic coefficient of ?5.0×10?8 to 8.0×10?8 cm2/N, while causing no ductile fracture. There is also disclosed a liquid crystal display which has achieved an improved yield in works of stamping a polarizing plate or sticking the plate to a panel and reduced color shift occurred depending on viewing angle. |Ro(589)|?10 nm??Equation (1) |Rth(589)|?20 nm??Equation (2) |Ro(480)?Ro(630)|?5 nm??Equation (3) |Rth(480)?Rth(630)|?10 nm??Equation (4) Numerical values of 589, 480 and 630 in parentheses represent the wavelength (nm) of a light used to measure an individual birefringence.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2008Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.Inventors: Takashi Takebe, Masataka Takimoto, Nobuo Kubo
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Patent number: 8472854Abstract: First belt 51 suspended on first upstream roller 53 and first downstream roller 54, and second belt 52 suspended on second upstream roller 55 and second downstream roller 56 each have a stiffness such that when assumed to be separated from each other, the first belt 51 and the second belt 52 rotate while maintaining an elliptic shape thereof. One of two portions of the first belt 51 facing each other between the first upstream roller 53 and the first downstream roller 54 and one of two portions of the second belt 52 facing each other between the second upstream roller 55 and the second downstream roller 56 are flat as a result of being brought into pressing contact with each other, and a fixing nip is formed therebetween. A toner image is fixed by being heated by heater lamp 57 when recording sheet S passes through the fixing nip.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2009Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Koji Yamamoto, Fumio Masuda
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Patent number: 8469894Abstract: An ultrasonic probe includes at least one transmission element layer for transmitting ultrasonic waves, at least one reception element layer for receiving ultrasonic waves and which is provided with an electrode on each of both surfaces opposed in a thickness direction thereof, and at least one matching layer for matching acoustic impedance. These layers are arranged in this order in a direction of transmitting the ultrasonic waves. An upper layer and a lower layer each sandwiching the electrodes formed on both surfaces of the reception element layer are each provided with a projecting portion which projects from the reception element layer in a direction of elevation. At least one of the electrodes formed on the reception element layer is formed by extending on a surface of one of the projecting portion opposed to a respective one of the upper layer and the lower layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2010Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.Inventor: Hiroshi Ishidai
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Patent number: 8469348Abstract: An image forming system including an image forming section to print images on sheets; a conveyance path through which the printed sheets are conveyed; a post-processing section which executes post-processing to form a booldet from a bundle of sheets conveyed through the conveyance path; a plurality of overlapping sections each of which is disposed between the image forming section and the post-processing section, makes the sheets temporarily wait, forms a bundle of sheets by overlapping a plurality of waiting sheets, and conveys to the post-processing apparatus; a control section which, with respect to a second or later booldet set in case of continuously forming booldet sets, controls a number of the sheets to be conveyed to the overlapping section, a conveying order of the sheets, and a timing to convey the sheets to a downstream side, based on a period of executing the post-processing.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2012Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Yasushi Saitsu
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Patent number: 8471914Abstract: When a shot is taken by a portable terminal, the position and orientation at the time of shooting is transmitted to an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus, which stores information including the position of equipment, detects the equipment included in the shot image by the portable terminal, based on the position and orientation of the portable terminal and the position of the equipment, and transmits information about the equipment to the portable terminal. The portable terminal obtains an operation history on an image processing apparatus in the equipment based on the received information, and displays an operation screen presenting the operation history in a selectable manner on a display unit. Then, when a selection of operation history is accepted, a control signal for allowing the image processing apparatus to execute image processing indicated by the operation history is transmitted to the image processing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Daisuke Sakiyama, Takeshi Morikawa, Takeshi Minami, Kaitaku Ozawa, Kazuya Anezaki
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Patent number: 8471879Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming method including forming a concave-convex pattern on a surface of a plate by pressing the plate and a mold having the convex-concave pattern on a surface thereof against each other, the plate having the surface made of a material in which a hardness changes reversibly at a transition point temperature, forming a plate image constituted of a concave-convex region having the concave-convex pattern and a smooth region in which the concave-convex pattern is erased on the plate by erasing the concave-convex pattern by selectively heating the surface of the plate to the transfer point temperature or above corresponding to an image signal, and forming an image on a recording medium by forming an ink image on the plate by applying an ink on the plate image and by transferring the ink image on to the recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ikuko Kanazawa, Hirofumi Nakagawa
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Patent number: 8472301Abstract: Provided is an objective optical element which can appropriately correct degradation from spherical aberration upon fluctuation of a light source wavelength while maintaining light use efficiency, just by changing the magnification of the objective optical element, and which can record/reproduce information to/from different optical discs. Also provided is an optical pickup device using the objective optical element. When a light flux having two different wavelengths ?11, ?12 (wherein ?11<?12 and ?12??11=5 nm) within a range of wavelength ?1 is introduced to the objective optical element to measure the wavefront aberration, the following third order and fifth order spherical aberrations in unit of ?rms are obtained: SA3(?11), SA5(?11), SA3(?12), SA5(?12). If ?SA3=|SA3(?12)?SA3(?11)|, ?SA5=|SA5(?12)?SA5(?11)|, the following expression is satisfied 0.18>?SA3>?SA5>0 (1).Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2012Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.Inventor: Kantarou Nakamura
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Patent number: 8472036Abstract: There is described a controlling method to be employed in a printing system that includes: a plurality of image forming apparatuses, each of which is capable of assigning a name to setting information in regard to a printing operation and also capable of registering the setting information in association with the name thereof; and a specific apparatus to be coupled to the plurality of image forming apparatuses. The method includes: acquiring plural sets of setting information, each of which is the setting information registered in each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses in association with the name thereof; determining whether or not at least two of the names assigned to the plural sets of setting information are cognominal; and displaying a message, indicating a fact that the same name is assigned to at least two of the plural sets of the setting information, when the names are cognominal.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2008Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Tamotsu Sakuraba
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Patent number: 8470232Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an annular belt made of polyimide comprising; a) joining both ends of a sheet made of a polyimide precursor to form an annular belt; and b) performing an imidizing reaction of the polyimide precursor.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2011Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Yasuo Kurachi
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Patent number: 8472047Abstract: Under a contention between a copy job and a print job, it is possible that a general user misunderstands that the payment he has made for the copy job is mistakenly used on the print job requested by another user. One solution to avoid such undesirable possibility is to display information indicating that the billing process is correctly done. Yet, the general user may fail to notice the display. In view of this, a billing and printing system prevents occurrence of job contention as long as the balance of payment made by a general user remains. An MFP included in the system does not accept any print job if a balance of received payment remains, and does not accept any payment if there is a queued print job.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2009Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Masahiro Imamura, Tomoko Maruyama, Kentaro Nagatani
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Patent number: 8472820Abstract: An image forming apparatus, comprises an image forming section, a transfer section to transfer the toner image onto a recording material; and a fixing device to fix the toner image onto the recording material; wherein the image forming section includes a plurality of color image forming sections and a transparent image forming section, and the plurality of color image forming sections and the transparent image forming section are arranged such that the transparent image is transferred so as to form a transparent image layer on an outer surface of the color image on the recording material at a fixing time by the fixing device, and wherein an amount of wax contained in the transparent toner is larger than an amount of wax contained in each color toner of the plurality of color toners and smaller than an amount of base resin contained in the transparent toner.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2010Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Hiroshi Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8473849Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided with a first electronic mail message transmission portion for transmitting an image file of a target image to be transmitted to an intended receiver to an apparatus of the intended receiver together with a URL of a web page on which an image format is specified, a second transmission image data generation portion for generating an image file of the target image in the format specified on the web page, and a second electronic mail message transmission portion for transmitting the image file thus generated to the apparatus of the intended receiver.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2010Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Haruna Miwa
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Patent number: 8472125Abstract: A variable power optical system (1) comprises a first lens group (11) having a negative optical power, a second lens group (12) having a positive optical power, and a third lens group (13). The first to third lens groups are arranged in order from the object side to the image side. The first lens group (11) is composed of one negative lens (111) and is fixed in variable power. The third lens group (13) includes at least one aspherical surface. When the third lens group is divided into a front group and a rear group with the largest air space in the third group, the front group has a negative optical power, and the rear group has a positive optical power.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2008Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.Inventor: Yasunari Fukuta
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Publication number: 20130157895Abstract: A tissue staining method which comprises: staining a tissue with a staining reagent wherein a biosubstance recognition site is bonded to particles carrying multiple fluorescent substances accumulated therein; in the stained tissue, counting fluorescent points or measuring fluorescent brightness; and evaluating the expression level of a biosubstance, which matches the biosubstance recognition site, in the aforesaid tissue on the basis of the number of the fluorescent points or fluorescent brightness that was measured.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicants: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL AND GRAPHIC, INC.Inventors: Takuji Aimiya, Hideki Gouda, Hisatake Okada, Yasushi Nakano, Kohsuke Gonda, Motohiro Takeda, Noriaki Ohuchi
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Publication number: 20130159536Abstract: An image processing device executing a job in cooperation with a server, comprises: an external terminal connecting part for establishing connection that allows communication with an external terminal; a server connecting part for conducting a negotiation to execute the job with the server and establishing connection with the server in response to receipt of a request from the external terminal; a transmission part for sending information that is received from the external terminal and addressed to the server after rewriting a source address of the information to an address of the image processing device; a screen image control part for outputting screen image information to the external terminal in response to receipt of the screen image information from the server; and a job execution control part for starting execution of the job with the server in accordance with a control command after receiving the control command from the server.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2012Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Hiroyuki KAWABATA
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Publication number: 20130154176Abstract: Sheets center-folded by a center-folder are placed on a main saddle. A buffer saddle is provided separately from the main saddle, on an opposite side of the center-folder across the main saddle. The pile of sheets saddle-stitched on the main saddle is placed on the buffer saddle. When viewed from above, the buffer saddle is movable in a direction separating from the main saddle that is a reverse direction to the center-folder, and in a direction orthogonal to the direction separating from the main saddle. A sheet processing device is arranged in the orthogonal direction where the buffer saddle is movable.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2012Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Keisuke OSHIMA
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Publication number: 20130156158Abstract: Provided is a thoracic diagnosis assistance system. The system includes, an imaging unit, an extracting unit, a region dividing unit, an analysis unit and a display unit. The extraction unit extracts a lung field region from the plurality of successive image frames generated by the imaging unit. The region dividing unit divides the lung field region extracted by the extraction unit into a plurality of sub-regions and correlates the sub-regions among the plurality of image frames. The analysis unit performs an analysis of the sub-regions to calculate an inspiratory feature quantity and an expiratory feature quantity and to calculate a value of a ratio of the calculated inspiratory feature quantity to expiratory feature quantity and creates a histogram of the calculated ratio value. The display unit displays the histogram.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHIC, INC.Inventors: Syou Noji, Tetsuo Shimada, Shintaro Muraoka, Sumiya Nagatsuka
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Publication number: 20130156453Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a control circuit rotationally drives a development roller at a predetermined rotation speed during a development process, in which the development roller has depression portions and land portions on a circumferential surface. The depression portions and the land portions are oblique grooves in the surface. While the development roller is rotationally driven, the control circuit controls the predetermined rotation speed such that a crossing angle approximates 90°. The crossing angle is formed by a screen line in the electrostatic latent image on the circumferential surface of the latent image support and an area where the land portion of the development roller substantially passes over the circumferential surface of the latent image support.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2012Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.,Inventor: Kunio FURUKAWA
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Publication number: 20130154039Abstract: The present invention provides a production method of a radiation image detector, comprising a scintillator panel preparation step, a composite rigid plate preparation step of bonding a flexible polymer film to a rigid plate with an adhesive to prepare the composite rigid plate, a preparation step of a scintillator panel provided with a composite rigid plate of bonding the composite rigid plate to a scintillator panel to prepare the scintillator panel provided with a composite rigid plate, and a preparation step of a radiation image detection member of opposing the surface of the photoelectric conversion base plate in which the photoelectric conversion elements are disposed to the surface of the side of the scintillator layer of the scintillator panel provided with the composite rigid plate and bonding the photoelectric conversion base plate to the scintillator panel to prepare a radiation image detection member; whereby there arc provided a production method of a radiation image detector which can he easilyType: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHIC, INC.Inventors: Koji Furui, Yoko Hirai