Abstract: Provided is a film mirror for solar thermal power generation including a reflective layer over a base and a hard coat layer at an outermost surface, in which the outermost hard coat layer contains a fluorine atom-containing leveling agent in 0.1% by mass or more and 10% by mass or less relative to the solid resin content thereof.
Abstract: A semiconductor nanoparticle assembly including semiconductor nanoparticles having a core/shell structure, and wherein the semiconductor nanoparticles are bonded by means of amide bonds.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 15, 2011
Publication date:
June 20, 2013
Applicants:
TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHIC INC.
Abstract: The present invention provides a toner for electrophotography capable of achieving high color reproducibility in a wide brightness region ranging from high to low brightness. This toner for electrophotography containing a compound represented by general formula (X-1) is characterized in that when the toner image formed exclusively from the toner is at maximum saturation, the hue angle (H) of the toner in a CIE L*a*b* color space is within the range of 341°?H?351°. [Formula 1] (In the formula: one of Rx1 and Rx2 is a methyl group or an ethyl group, while the other represents an alkyl group with C12 or less optionally substituted by a group including an oxygen atom, or a 5- or 6-membered aliphatic ring optionally substituted by a group including an oxygen atom connecting a nitrogen atom and Rx1 and Rx2; and GX2 represents an alkyl group optionally substituted by a group including an oxygen atom.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 19, 2011
Publication date:
June 20, 2013
Applicant:
KONICA MINOLAT BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Abstract: A biological substance detection method for detecting a biological substance specifically in a pathological specimen, comprising a step of immunologically staining the pathological specimen using a fluorescent label, a step of staining the pathological specimen with a staining reagent for morphology observation purposes (eosin) to observe the morphology of the pathological specimen, a step of irradiating the stained pathological specimen, with excited light to cause the emission of a fluorescent and detecting the biological substance in the pathological specimen. In the step of immunologically staining the pathological specimen, a special fluorescent particle for which the excitation wavelength appears in a region that is different from the excitation wavelength region of eosin is used as the fluorescent label.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 30, 2011
Publication date:
June 20, 2013
Applicants:
TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHIC, INC.
Abstract: Provided is a diagnosis assistance system. The system includes, an imaging unit, an analysis unit, an operation unit, and a display unit. The analysis unit extracts a subject region from each of the plurality of image frames generated by the imaging unit, divides the extracted subject region into a plurality of regions, and analyzes the divided regions correlated among the plurality of image frames, thereby calculating a predetermined feature quantity indicating motions of the divided regions. The operation unit allows a user to select a region serving as a display target of an analysis result by the analysis unit. The display unit displays the calculated feature quantity regarding the selected region.
Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including an optical writing device including, a light source section composed of a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a main scanning direction; an optical section including a plurality of coupled lenses to form an image on a light exposure face by gathering light emitted from the light emitting elements; and a storage section to store first correction data for correcting the light intensity of the plurality of light emitting elements and second correction data for correcting an optical characteristic specific to the coupled lens, and a control section to read out the first correction data and the second correction data from the storage section of the optical writing device and to correct the first correction data based on the second correction data.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 23, 2009
Date of Patent:
June 18, 2013
Assignee:
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element comprising a laminated body incorporating an anode substrate, an anode, at least one non-light emitting organic layer A exhibiting positive hole transportability, at least one light emitting organic layer B, at least one non-light emitting organic layer C exhibiting electron transportability, a cathode, and a cathode substrate in the sequence set forth, wherein at least 80% by weight of the organic layer A and the organic layer C in the laminated body is formed via a wet process, and the laminated body is made with an adhesion process between the organic layer A and the organic layer B, or between the organic layer B and the organic layer C.
Abstract: An optical scanning device includes a plurality of light sources, at least two securing units provided for each of the light sources, and a substrate for driving the light sources. The components are arranged such that the direction “A” in which the light sources are arranged has an upward slant with respect to a lateral direction (i.e. X direction) of the substrate, and the direction “B” in which the at least two securing units provided for each of the light sources are arranged has a downward slant with respect to the lateral direction of the substrate. Accordingly, a compact optical scanning device can be provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 15, 2010
Date of Patent:
June 18, 2013
Assignee:
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
Abstract: A image reading apparatus 4 includes the exchangeable image reading portion 38, the document transportation path 30 curved so as to move around the image reading portion 38, the skew correction rollers 35 in the hosing 3a. The skew correction rollers 35 are arranged on the document transportation path 30 at the transportation upstream side with respect to the reading position 46 of the image reading portion 38. The image reading portion 38 passes through the document transportation path 30 at the transportation upstream side with respect to the skew correction rollers 35 so as to be detached from and attached to the housing 3a.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 28, 2011
Date of Patent:
June 18, 2013
Assignee:
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
Abstract: In order to reduce the data amount of image data while preventing degradation of image quality, an MFP includes an image data acquiring portion to acquire image data, a region extracting portion to extract regions having predetermined attributes from the image data, a selecting portion to select one of the extracted regions, a reduction portion to reduce the data amount of the image data by processing the selected region in a manner predetermined for the attribute of that region, and a comparing portion to compare the data amount of the image data after reduction of the data amount with a predetermined target value, in which the selecting portion selects the regions one by one until the comparing portion determines that the data amount of the image data is equal to or less than the target value.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 23, 2009
Date of Patent:
June 18, 2013
Assignee:
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
Abstract: Disclosed in an image forming apparatus including a conveyance section to convey a paper, a first fixing device to fix a toner on the paper by heat fixing, a first cooling device to cool the paper in which the toner is fixed, a second fixing device to fix the toner on the paper by heat fixing, a second cooling device to cool the paper in which the toner is fixed, a conveyance path switching section to switch a conveyance path of the paper between a first conveyance path and a second conveyance path and a control section to control so as to carry out cooling by operating the second cooling device and not operating the first cooling device when the paper is to be conveyed to the first conveyance path and so as to carry out cooling by operating the first cooling device when the paper is to be conveyed to the second conveyance path.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 4, 2010
Date of Patent:
June 18, 2013
Assignee:
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
Abstract: The present invention provides: a method of manufacturing a gas barrier film, which is manufactured at high productivity, and has extremely high gas barrier performance and stability thereof with time, excellent surface smoothness and bending resistance, and high durability; a gas barrier film obtained using the method; and an organic photoelectric conversion element using the gas barrier film. In the method, after forming a coated layer by applying a coating liquid containing polysilazane to a substrate, a gas barrier layer is formed by applying vacuum ultraviolet light to the coated layer surface thus formed. The method is characterized in that the coated layer is irradiated with the vacuum ultraviolet light, while drying the solvent in the e coated layer.
Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a driving source configured to generate power; a first rotator configured to be drivingly rotated by the power generated by the driving source; a first power transmission system configured to transmit the power from the driving source to the first rotator; a second rotator configured to be drivingly rotated by the power generated by the driving source; and a second power transmission system configured to transmit the power to the second rotator from the first power transmission system. A damper having a torsion spring constant and a torsion viscous damping constant making a maximum positional change value of the first rotator equal to or smaller than a predetermined positional change value is disposed between the first power transmission system and the second power transmission system.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 4, 2012
Publication date:
June 13, 2013
Applicant:
KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Abstract: Provided is a device for manufacturing an optical film having satisfactorily reduced thickness unevenness, by using a melt-casting film forming method, which device includes a casting die for discharging a molten film-forming material including a thermoplastic resin into a film-like shape; a pair of a first rotation roll and a second rotation roll between which the discharged film-shaped molten article is pinched to be cooled and solidified to make the film shaped molten article; and two pairs of wind shield plates each of which pairs are arranged between the shaft-direction ends of the first and second rotation rolls and an end part in the width-direction of the film-shaped molten article, wherein the wind shield plates are placed approximately perpendicular to the surface of the film-shaped molten article, and wherein each pair of the wind shield plates are placed approximately in parallel.
Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light-emitting device includes forming a wave length conversion portion on a light-emitting element. The light emitting device includes a light-emitting element which emits light of a predetermined wavelength and a wavelength conversion portion which includes a fluorescent substance which is excited by the light emitted from the light-emitting element so as to emit fluorescence of a wavelength different from the predetermined wavelength, which wavelength conversion portion is formed by including the fluorescent substance, a layered silicate mineral, and an organometallic compound.
Abstract: A material for an organic EL element showing high light emission efficiency and high color purity of the emission light, an organic EL element, a lighting device and a displaying device each using the material.
Abstract: A control device for controlling a use of control object apparatus, including a control section which is configured to read out information recorded in an IC card with noncontact state, to discriminates an attribute of a user based on readout information and previously stored information, and to switch between an authentication mode and a billing mode in accordance with the attribute of the user, wherein in the authentication mode, the control section permits the use of the control object apparatus only with an authentication, and in the billing mode, the control section executes a billing processing on the IC card in accordance with a use state of the control object apparatus.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 25, 2010
Date of Patent:
June 11, 2013
Assignee:
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
Abstract: A sheet ejecting device for ejecting printed sheets to a stacker one by one, the sheet ejecting device including a pair of ejection rollers; a strengthener, located in a sheet ejection route, for providing a force for a sheet; a bender, arranged to be capable of advancing into and retreating from the sheet ejection route, for canceling out the force provided for the sheet by the strengthener; a driver for moving the bender to advance into and retreat from the sheet ejection route, a sensor for detecting a currently ejected sheet, and a controller for controlling the driver based on a signal sent from the sensor so that the bender can cancel out the force provided for the sheet by the strengthener.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 4, 2012
Date of Patent:
June 11, 2013
Assignee:
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
Abstract: Provided is a small-sized five-element image pickup lens which ensures a sufficient lens speed of about F2 and exhibits various aberrations being excellently corrected. The image pickup lens is composed of, in order from the object side, a first lens with a positive refractive power, including a convex surface facing the object side; a second lens with a negative refractive power, including a concave surface facing the image side; a third lens with a positive or negative refractive power; a fourth lens with a positive refractive power, including a convex surface facing the image side; and a fifth lens with a negative refractive power, including a concave surface facing the image side. The image-side surface of the fifth lens has an aspheric shape, and includes an inflection point at a position excluding an intersection point with the optical axis.
Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section which performs image formation according to execution of a job, a storage section which can store two or more jobs, a display section to perform display, and a control section by which the operations of the image forming section and the display section are controlled, and the job is stored and managed in the storage section, and which performs these two or more jobs in a prescribed order. According to the setting conditions and the operating state of each of jobs, before and after the job, in the execution order, this control section creates guidance and displays this guidance on the display section. According to, or referring to, the guidance, the user is guided to perform processes. Working efficiency is enhanced because the operator knows easily a process or timing required in order to operate without stopping print operation.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 24, 2010
Date of Patent:
June 11, 2013
Assignee:
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.