Patents Assigned to Konica
  • IMAGE INSPECTION APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE INSPECTION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20250142003
    Abstract: An image inspection apparatus includes: a reader configured to read management information formed on a sheet; and a hardware processor. The hardware processor is configured to determine, by using a collation information management table that stores page numbers and collation information for the respective page numbers of sheets, whether the management information matches the collation information. The hardware processor is configured to set a start page number from which the determination is started. The hardware processor starts the determination from the start page number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Takashi YAMASHITA
  • PRINT CONTROL DEVICE, PRINT CONTROL SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING PRINT CONTROL PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20250138460
    Abstract: A print control device includes a controller that causes a roll printing machine to print a color adjustment chart. The controller, upon reception of a first print instruction to print a first color adjustment chart, temporarily stores the received first color adjustment chart and suspends printing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Munetoshi Eguchi
  • IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20250138454
    Abstract: An image forming method that uses an electrostatic charge image development toner containing a toner particle, the image forming method includes, bringing a first fixer into contact with a recording medium on which a toner image containing the electrostatic charge image development toner is formed and fixing the toner image on the recording medium; and cooling the recording medium by bringing a first cooler into contact with the recording medium separated from the first fixer. The toner particle includes an amorphous polyester and a crystalline polyester. A content of a structural unit derived from a bisphenol A derivative is 30 mol % or less based on 100 mol % of all structural units derived from polyhydric alcohols in the amorphous polyester.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kazumi OURA, Tomoko MINE
  • Image processing apparatus and image processing method
    Patent number: 12288333
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing device including a hardware processor. The hardware processor: obtains a static image and a dynamic image of a same subject by radiographic imaging; detects, on the static image, a first analysis target area; detects, on the dynamic image, a second analysis target area corresponding to the first analysis target area; analyzes the second analysis target area of the dynamic image to generate a functional information representative from change caused by biological motion; deforms and positions the second analysis target area so that the second analysis target area corresponds to the first analysis target area; overlays the functional information representative of the deformed and positioned second analysis target area on the static image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Noritsugu Matsutani
  • Image forming method and image forming system
    Patent number: 12287592
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming method including: developing, with an electrostatic charge image developing toner, a latent image formed on a photoreceptor in which a photosensitive layer is formed on a support containing aluminum as a main component; transferring a toner image on the photoreceptor onto a transfer target; and rubbing and removing the electrostatic charge image developing toner remaining on the photoreceptor after the transferring. The support contains silicon in a range of more than 0.6% by mass and 12.6% by mass or less, a shape factor of toner particles included in the electrostatic charge image developing toner is in a range of 0.800 to 0.970, and a content of the toner particles having a particle diameter of 2 ?m or less is in a range of 5% by number to 30% by number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kazumi Oura, Hiroshi Nagasawa, Masaharu Matsubara, Koji Shibata, Akihiko Itami, Makoto Nomiya, Natsuki Ito
  • Inkjet recording apparatus and program
    Patent number: 12285957
    Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus of a scanning type includes: a treatment liquid head that ejects a treatment liquid having a flocculation effect on a coloring material ink and a coloring material; and an ink head that ejects the coloring material ink in a single carriage, wherein the ink head does not pass through a treatment liquid discharging part after discharging the treatment liquid in a same scan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Takuya Ishigai
  • Sterilizer and mobile radiation irradiator
    Patent number: 12285533
    Abstract: A sterilizer includes: a holder that holds a portable radiographic imager; and an LED row in which a plurality of LEDs that emit an ultraviolet ray are arranged in a row and which directly or indirectly irradiates a radiation incident surface of the radiographic imager with the ultraviolet ray emitted by each LED, the radiographic imager being held by the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hajime Ishimoto, Makoto Sumi
  • Image forming method
    Patent number: 12286543
    Abstract: An image forming method according to an aspect of the present invention includes supplying a water based ink to an inkjet head at a flow rate of 5 mL/min or more and 120 mL/min or less, and ejecting the supplied water based ink from a nozzle of the inkjet head. The water based ink contains a colorant and a water-insoluble resin having a glass transition temperature of 40° C. or higher and 100° C. or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Taguchi, Masashi Ikeda
  • Intraoral measurement device
    Patent number: 12285158
    Abstract: An intraoral measurement device includes: a device main body that holds a base end side of a prism by a housing, the housing accommodating an illumination member and an imaging member, a cover member that is attached to the device main body in a state of covering, with a space part interposed in between, a distal end side of the prism arranged to face a measurement target, in which a part arranged to face the measurement target is formed by a light transmission window; and a heat transfer member that extends from the device main body along a non-optical surface of the prism, and transfers heat of the device main body to the light transmission window through abutment of a protruding end provided to protrude from the prism against the light transmission window of the cover member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Kurosawa, Atsushi Nagaoka, Yoshihiro Inagaki, Mohdmakhtar Nurnabila
  • Hydrogel particle and method for producing same, cell or cell structure each enclosing hydrogel particle therein, method for evaluating activity of cell using hydrogel particle, and use of hydrogel particle as sustained release preparation
    Patent number: 12285500
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing: a hydrogel particle which can be taken into a cell by the action of the cell and can control the release of a magnetic particle enclosed therein into the cell so as to retain the magnetic particle in the cell for a long period; a method for producing the hydrogel particle; a cell or a cell structure each enclosing the hydrogel particle therein; and a method for evaluating the activity of a cell using the hydrogel particle. The present invention solves the problem by a hydrogel particle including: a domain which is composed of a first hydrogel; a matrix which encloses the domain and is composed of a second hydrogel having a different crosslinking degree or composition from that of the first hydrogel; and a magnetic particle which is supported by at least the first hydrogel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignees: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Mochizuki, Chie Inui, Natsumi Hirayama, Akihiro Maezawa, Yasuhiko Tabata
  • IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20250133168
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that executes a job and outputs an image includes a hardware processor that: receives input of failure information indicating that a failure has occurred due to execution of the job; acquires state information inside the image forming apparatus when receiving the input of the failure information; outputs the state information for failure analysis; determines whether or not a predetermined event has occurred during a period from the execution of a most recent job to the input of the failure information when the input of the failure information is received; and restricts output of the state information at the time of the output for failure analysis when the predetermined event has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Ishiguro
  • ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD
    Publication number: 20250130514
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrostatic charge image developing toner including a toner base particle containing a binder resin and a colorant. The electrostatic charge image developing toner contains, as the binder resin, a polymer having at least a structural unit represented by a general formula (1), and a concentration of radiocarbon isotope 14C is 21.5 pMC or more, and in the general formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and R2 represents an alicyclic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Atsushi IIOKA, Kazuya ISOBE, Yukiko NAKAI, Shiori TSUDA, Genki WATANABE
  • Inkjet recorder
    Patent number: 12275248
    Abstract: An inkjet recorder includes: a drum that is rotatable about a rotation axis and conveys a recording medium; a head unit including an ejection surface that ejects ink that forms an image on the medium conveyed to the drum, the head unit being movable between a recording position at which the ejection surface faces the drum and a cleaning position separated from the recording position in a direction parallel to the rotation axis; and a cleaning unit that is disposed at a position being adjacent to the drum in the direction parallel to the rotation axis and facing the ejection surface of the head unit located at the cleaning position, and cleans the ejection surface, wherein the head unit includes heads having the ejection surface, the cleaning unit includes a cleaning member, the cleaning member has a cleaning surface, and the cleaning surface cleans the ejection surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Satoshi Chikazawa
  • State change tracking device, X-ray imaging system, state change tracking method of inspection target, and life estimating method of inspection target
    Patent number: 12276622
    Abstract: A state change tracking device includes: a hardware processor that non-destructively tracks a state change of an inspection target by a plurality of reconstructed images acquired by imaging the inspection target placed under a specific environment by an X-ray Talbot imaging device over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Tadashi Arimoto, Ikuma Ota
  • Image forming apparatus and image forming method for transferring a powder to an image pattern on a recording medium
    Patent number: 12276925
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a powder holding member and a transfer member. The powder holding member holds a powder pattern constituted by powder on a surface. The transfer member constitutes a nip part for nipping a recording medium on which an image pattern is formed with the powder holding member, and pastes powder constituting the powder pattern to the image pattern at the nip part. The image forming apparatus also includes a powder supply member that supplies powder to the surface of the powder holding member, and an adhesion force of the powder to the conveyance member is smaller than an adhesion force of the powder to a part where the powder pattern is formed on the surface of the powder holding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Yuya Sato
  • Radiation imaging system and storage medium
    Patent number: 12274579
    Abstract: A radiation imaging system includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor calculates an exposure index representative value of a radiation image based on the radiation image including a plurality of frame images. The hardware processor is capable of setting a target value of an exposure index differently for each imaging mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Yuuichi Maruta
  • Method for manufacturing optical lens provided with anti-reflection film
    Patent number: 12276773
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical lens using an ion-assisted deposition apparatus that comprises an ion source includes: forming, on a lens substrate made of a material containing 40 mass % or more of fluoride, a first lower layer of an anti-reflection film of the optical lens, wherein the first lower layer is a fluoride layer; forming, on the first lower layer, a second lower layer of the anti-reflection film; forming on the second lower layer, one or more intermediate layers of the antireflection film; forming, on the one or more intermediate layers, an uppermost layer of the anti-reflection film; and irradiating, using the ion source, the lens substrate with ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Nakano, Koji Takahara
  • Radiographic failure determination support device and recording medium
    Patent number: 12277702
    Abstract: A radiographic failure determination support device includes a determiner and a notifier. The determiner makes a determination about whether a signal saturation region is present in a radiation image captured by radiographing a subject. In a case in which the determiner determines that the signal saturation region is present in the radiation image, the notifier notifies a user that the signal saturation region is present in the radiation image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Ryohei Ito
  • Radiographic image capturing device, radiographic image capturing system, control method, and control program
    Patent number: 12274576
    Abstract: A radiographic image capturing device connectable to a plurality of types of radiographic image capturing control devices having different specifications, includes a hardware processor that controls an operation of the radiographic image capturing device based on information indicating specifications or a type of a radiographic image capturing control device connected to the radiographic image capturing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuuichi Maruta, Hiroaki Nakano
  • Image formation apparatus and control method therefor
    Patent number: 12276931
    Abstract: An image formation apparatus includes: an image former that forms an image on a recording medium delivered along a predetermined delivery path and outputs the recording medium; a first hardware processor that judges whether or not the recording medium is an envelope; a second hardware processor that acquires a basis weight of the recording medium; a third hardware processor that determines control for when an image is formed on the recording medium on the basis of a judgment result from the first hardware processor and a basis weight acquired by the second hardware processor; and a fourth hardware processor that controls operation of the image former on the basis of a determination result from the third hardware processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Nonoyama, Masahiro Kamiya, Katsuhide Sakai, Junichi Masuda, Taku Kimura