Patents Assigned to Konica
  • Patent number: 8437650
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus may include a sensor which detects a density of a patch image formed on an image carrier; an image quality control section which controls an image forming condition based on a detection value of the sensor; and a judging section which judges if the detection value has a tendency of increasing or decreasing, or not, wherein, the image quality control section compensates the image forming condition with a first compensating amount in case when the detection value does not have the tendency of increasing nor decreasing, and compensates the image forming condition with a second compensating amount of which absolute value is larger than an absolute value of the first compensating amount corresponding to the second compensating amount, in case when the detection value has the tendency of increasing or decreasing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Takaaki Kooriya, Kimio Nishizawa, Takahiro Kanmaki
  • Patent number: 8437686
    Abstract: An image forming system includes: a decurl section which corrects a curl on a sheet on which an image has been formed; a sheet ejection section on which the sheet to be ejected is stacked; a finishing section which conducts post processing on the sheet on which the image has been formed and ejects the sheet on the sheet ejection section; and an operation and display section having a setting screen for setting a post-processing condition and a selection screen for selecting a decurl direction to be corrected by the decurl section. A selection section that selects the decurl direction given by the decurl section, and a decurl image that shows a decurl direction on the sheet ejection section for the sheet, are indicated on the selection screen, and the selection section and the decurl image are displayed on the same selection screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Motoki Nakamichi
  • Patent number: 8434303
    Abstract: A storing section (70) stores a second initial contact instruction value, which is predefined as an instruction value for positioning a movable portion (5) to a second contact position where the movable portion (5) is contacted with a stopper (8), and an initial standby instruction value, which is predefined as an instruction value for positioning the movable portion (5) to a specified standby position within a moving range of the movable portion (5). A correcting section (42) calculates an actual standby instruction value by correcting the initial standby instruction value, based on a second actual contact instruction value obtained when a contact detection section (41) has detected that the movable portion (5) is positioned to the second contact position, and the second initial contact instruction value. A setting section (43) sets a standby position corresponding to the actual standby instruction value, as an actual standby position of the movable portion (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Honda, Yasutaka Tanimura, Natsuko Shiota, Yoshihiro Hara
  • Patent number: 8437067
    Abstract: Provided is an electrochemical display element composed of a simple member structure, capable of driving at low voltage, and exhibiting high display contrast and white display reflectance, and further to provide the electrochemical display element exhibiting reduced variation in reflectance during repetitive driving even after storage for a long duration. Disclosed is an electrochemical display element possessing an N-oxyl derivative represented by the following Formula (1), an electrolyte and a pair of facing electrodes: wherein each of R1, R2, R3 and R4 independently represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group, an aromatic hydrocarbon group or a heterocyclic group, which may have a hydrogen atom or a substituent; Z1 represents a group of atoms having 2 or 3 atoms to form a cyclic structure; and Z1 may also have a substituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Takamune Hattori, Osamu Ishige, Takeshi Hakii
  • Patent number: 8437655
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging unit, including: a developing unit having a developing roller and a first abutting member; a photosensitive unit having a photosensitive drum and a second abutting member, a gap between the photosensitive drum and the developing roller being set constant by bringing the first abutting member into abutting contact with the second abutting member; a cleaner configured to be disposed in a space between the first and the second abutting members in a separate state where the first abutting member is spaced away from the second abutting member; and a displacement unit configured to displace the cleaner from the space as the first abutting member is brought close to the second abutting member. In the displacement, the displacement unit causes the cleaner to slide on an abutting surface of at least one of the first and the second abutting members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Hideto Sakurai
  • Patent number: 8437685
    Abstract: In a post-processing apparatus in which sheets are stacked in a stacker section and arranged to be subject to post-processing, the stacker section is provided with a sheet ejection section which subsequently ejects the sheets one by one or two or more sheets overlapped with each other, wherein the sheet ejection section is provided with a corrugation application member to apply corrugation onto the sheet to be ejected and to change extent of the corrugation to be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Tanaka, Hiroyuki Wakabayashi, Masaaki Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 8437651
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to visually recognize a suitable time when an operator should stay at the machine side, even if a reserved job includes a job continuous implementation impeding factor. The image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section to implement the reserved job; an operating section to accept operations for inputting a plurality of reserved jobs; a controlling section to extract a specific reserved job, which includes the job continuous implementation impeding factor, from the plurality of reserved jobs inputted through the operating section, so as to set discrimination information representing the job continuous implementation impeding factor into the specific reserved job; and a displaying section to display the specific reserved job to which the discrimination information is set and other reserved jobs to which the discrimination information is not set, on the same screen in a synopsis manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Kamata
  • Patent number: 8435715
    Abstract: Disclosed is a production method of a two-component developer for developing an electrostatic image comprising a toner and a resin coated carrier having a porous magnetic core particle and a resin coated layer, wherein the porous magnetic core particle are composed of a porous ferrite material and have pore apertures on a surface of the particle, and the method comprises steps of blocking the pore apertures of the porous magnetic core particle with rubber particles by dry mixing of the porous magnetic core particle and the rubber particles, forming the resin coated carrier by forming a resin layer on the porous magnetic core particle whose pore apertures have been blocked, and mixing the resin coated carrier and the toner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kosuke Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kozuru, Yoshiyasu Matsumoto, Takanari Kayamori, Junya Ueda
  • Patent number: 8436322
    Abstract: A radiation image conversion panel which is excellent in luminance and sharpness is disclosed, comprising a phosphor layer formed on a support by a process of vapor growth, and the support comprising a resin and exhibiting a linear thermal expansion coefficient of 20 to 70 ppm/° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.
    Inventors: Shinichi Okamura, Tadashi Arimoto
  • Patent number: 8437028
    Abstract: An image combining apparatus, which is connected with a white-board device, and an image projecting device, includes an image outputting section for outputting the projective image data to the image projecting device, an operation section for designating any position on a projected image, an image processing section for generating projective image data for displaying a mark, a memory section for memorizing the coordinate positions of two or more standard points, and an image inputting section for receiving the scanned image data from the white-board device, wherein the image processing section obtains the coordinate positions of the certain marks when the two or more standard points have been designated, the image processing section makes correspondence with the coordinate positions of the certain marks and the coordinate positions of the two or more standard points respectively, whereby the image processing position recognizes the position of the projected image on the viewing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Takeo Katsuda
  • Patent number: 8438390
    Abstract: A system that facilitates enhancing security for a computer device by obtaining a link layer address of an IPv6 IPsec address. The system including a computer device having a software module, which performs the following steps: capturing multicast addresses and solicited multicast addresses for one or more IPv6 IPsec addresses; calculating the computer device identifier from the one or more multicast addresses and solicited multicast addresses; storing the computer device identifier for the one or more multicast addresses and solicited multicast addresses; sending a neighbor solicitation to one or more of the IPv6 IPsec addresses as a tentative target address simulating double address detection; capturing the neighbor advertisement response from the one or more IPv6 IPsec addresses and calculating a link-layer identifier; generating a neighbor cache with the link-layer identifier; and enabling IPv6 IPsec communication with the one or more IPv6 IPsec addresses using the link-layer identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventor: Maria Perez
  • Patent number: 8437684
    Abstract: In case of both sides printing, the sheet S having an image formed on the obverse surface is conveyed to the first reversal section of the reversal device 50 disposed in a reversal path R3. In the first reversal section, the sheet S is conveyed to a U-turn reversal path by the reversal roller 56 with the first side section of the sheet S as the leading edge section. In the U-turn reversal path, a position of the first side surface section and a position of the second side surface section of the sheet S are exchanged and the sheet S is conveyed to the second reversal section. In the second reversal section, the sheet having been turned over is fed again to the register rollers 16 with a leading edge section at image forming on the obverse surface as the leading edge side. Whereby the same edge of the sheet S contacts with the register rollers 16 when the image is formed on the obverse side and when the image is formed on the reverse side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyoichi Mizuno, Kunihiro Kawachi, Takahiro Hara
  • Patent number: 8438232
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to reduce operation load of a responsible person corresponding to external address for transmission of an e-mail to the external address. In order to accomplish this, an e-mail transmission device transmits an e-mail based on an operation made by a user, comprising: a storage part for storing therein a destination address registration information in which a destination address of the e-mail, an address type information in which either of internal address or external address is registered as type of the destination address, and an address responsible for external address registered if the address type registered in the address type information is external address are associated with each other; and a transmission part for transmitting the e-mail to the destination address designated by the user from a plurality of destination addresses included in the destination address registration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomo Tsuboi, Tomoyuki Okamoto, Yasuji Takeuchi, Nobuo Kamei, Yoshiaki Shibuta
  • Patent number: 8437051
    Abstract: A sheet finisher includes: a conveyance section to convey a sheet; an image reading section which reads an image of a sheet; and a sheet finisher control section, wherein the sheet finisher control section transmits wait information which requests an interruption of sheet conveyance, to outside, and transmits image data acquired by reading of the image reading section to the outside after transmitting the wait information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies
    Inventor: Motoki Nakamichi
  • Patent number: 8437683
    Abstract: A sheet feeding device including: a sheet feeding tray; a first air blowing section which blows air against a lateral side of the sheet bundle; a second air blowing section which blows air against a leading edge of the sheet bundle; a sheet adsorption conveyance section which conveys sheets one by one; a sheet type information transmission section; a shielding member arranged to open or shield the ventilating path; a shielding state switching section which switches to any one state of opening, partial shielding and overall shielding, wherein in the partial shielding state, less amount of air is allowed to pass than the opening state; a sheet adsorption detecting section; and a control section which controls to switch among the state of opening, partial shielding and overall shielding of the ventilating path, in accordance with the information from the sheet type and the sheet adsorption detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Tomoo Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8437017
    Abstract: Print data for display in which an operation screen of a multifunction periphery is described in a page-description language is created and outputted to an external memory medium. Specifically, the print data for display includes a screen description section 51 where an image is described by vector information and a function description section 52 where a function of the operation screen (operation when the operation button is pressed) is described by PJL. In another multifunction periphery, a bitmap image of an operation screen 60 is created and displayed by rasterizing the screen description section 51 of the print data for display read from the external memory medium, and the function of the operation screen is reproduced from information of the function description section 52.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Kiyohari Nakagama
  • Publication number: 20130108300
    Abstract: A fixing device is provided that can limit a temperature rise in paper non-contact edge portions with a relatively simple configuration and can make uniform a temperature distribution across a paper feed region. A heating roller includes lamps that respectively heat a center region and a large edge region and a small edge region, a temperature sensor for a heat generating region of the center lamp, a temperature sensor for a heat generating region of the edge-side lamps, and a temperature sensor for a paper non-contact edge portion. The heating roller selects any one of the edge-side lamps based on a detection result from the temperature sensor for the paper non-contact edge portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Makoto FUJII
  • Publication number: 20130106748
    Abstract: A handwriting input device in which a handwriting input is possible to a touch panel which is superimposed on a display screen including: an inputted contents processing section for recognizing a content by the handwriting input and setting up a area on the display screen based on an recognition result; an application software determining section for determining an application software which should be started up based on the recognition result and starting up the application software; and a result processing section for inserting information acquired by the started application software into the area and displaying on the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kenta HOSAKA, Toshihiro MOTOI, Yoichi KAWABUCHI, Yasuhiko YAMAGUCHI, Takao SHUDO, Shunsuke TAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20130111353
    Abstract: A medical coordination system includes a data management server and an in-facility system. The in-facility system each include a terminal device and an in-facility server which is connected to the terminal device and which stores medical information data generated in the medical facility, and the data management server includes a storage unit which stores medical information data transmitted from the terminal device of the in-facility system. When the medical information data is transmitted to an in-facility server of an affiliate that is permitted to view the medical information data, the transmission is performed either directly to the in-facility server of the affiliate or via the terminal device of the affiliate, in accordance with a demand from the terminal device of the affiliate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.
    Inventor: Yutaka Ueda
  • Publication number: 20130111238
    Abstract: In an image processing system that allows mutual remote operation with a client remotely operating one of an image processing apparatus and a portable information apparatus and with a server being remotely operated by the other, each of the image processing apparatus and the portable information apparatus includes a display portion to display an image, a switch portion to switch the display portion to a power saving mode in which power consumption is smaller than in a normal mode, when functioning as the server, and to switch the display portion to the normal mode, when functioning as a client, and a display control portion to simultaneously display a self-operation screen for operating the apparatus itself and a remote operation screen for remotely operating the server on the display portion, when functioning as the client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kazusei TAKAHASHI, Katsuhiko AKITA, Takeshi MORIKAWA, Daisuke NAKANO, Yuji OKAMOTO