Patents Assigned to Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20220012973
    Abstract: A transaction device executes transaction processing relating to a medium, and includes: a medium retention section capable of retaining the medium; plural first storage boxes capable of storing the medium; a second storage box capable of storing the medium and that is detachable with respect to the transaction device; a conveyance section capable of conveying the medium on a conveyance path connecting between the first storage boxes, the second storage box, and the medium retention section; and a classification section provided on the conveyance path and capable of classifying the medium as the medium passes through, wherein the conveyance section being configured to convey the medium from the first storage boxes to the second storage box or from the second storage box to the first storage boxes via the medium retention section and the classification section when performing retrieval, auditing, or replenishment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru SHIMAKATA, Masakatsu IWASAKI
  • Patent number: 11212418
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a data processing part that processes image data: a storage part that stores billing information including a plurality of wireless communication identifiers and usage histories of the data processing part, each of the usage histories being associated with wireless communication identifiers, a communication part that establishes a wireless communication associated with one of the wireless communication identifiers such that the communication part wirelessly communicates with an external device, and a control part that, when receiving an image processing job from the external device through the communication part, determines one of the wireless communication identifiers that is used to establish the wireless communication wherein the one of the wireless communication identifiers is defined as a destination identifier, controls the data processing part based on the image processing job and updates one usage history that is associated with the destination identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuichi Ushikubo
  • Patent number: 11209765
    Abstract: A power supply device includes a rectification circuit that is supplied with AC power from an AC power supply, a power factor improvement circuit that boosts an output voltage of the rectification circuit, smooths a boosted voltage with a capacitor, and thereby generates a DC output voltage outputted to a load circuit, a DC-DC converter that steps down the DC output voltage to a prescribed first voltage, a DC output voltage detection circuit that detects whether or not the DC output voltage satisfies a prescribed condition, and a switch circuit that temporarily puts the power factor improvement circuit in an operating state by use of the first voltage each time the prescribed condition is satisfied in a period in which the power factor improvement circuit is in a stopped state due to an energy saving mode of the load circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kojima, Taku Oryoji
  • Publication number: 20210397115
    Abstract: An image formation apparatus according to an embodiment may include a fixation device and a controller. The fixation device includes: a fixation member includes a first region and a second region located closer to a center in a longitudinal direction of the fixation member than the first region; a pressurizing member that forms a nip portion between the fixation member and the pressurizing member; first and second heat generating portions that heat the first and second regions, respectively; a first sensor that detects a first temperature of one of the pressurizing member and the fixation member at a position corresponding to the first region; and a second sensor that detects a second temperature of the one at a position corresponding to the second region. The controller controls a drive speed of the pressurizing member or the fixation member based on the first and second temperatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryoji YABUKI
  • Patent number: 11204727
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a data processing part that performs image processing of image data, a setting part that sets multiple wireless communication identifiers and functions related to image processing that are respectively associated with the multiple wireless communication identifiers wherein these wireless communication identifies are stored in a storage part, a communication part that establishes a communication with at least one of the external devices using one of the wireless communication identifiers such that the established communication is related to the one of the wireless communication identifiers, wherein the one of the external devices is defined as a connected external device, and the one of the wireless communication identifiers is defined as a related ID, when an image processing job is acquired via the communication part, the control part controls the image processing at the data processing part based on the function associated with the related ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuichi Ushikubo
  • Patent number: 11199650
    Abstract: The lens unit includes a first lens array including a plurality of first lens elements each of which has a first optical axis and which are arranged in an arrangement direction perpendicular to the first optical axis. A second lens array includes a plurality of second lens elements each of which has a second optical axis and which are arranged in the arrangement direction while facing the first lens elements. The second lens array is in a positional relationship relative to the first lens array such that the second lens array is rotated about a virtual line perpendicular to both the first optical axis and the arrangement direction as the rotational axis by 180 degrees. The optical axes of the lens elements located at the substantially centers of the lens arrays in the arrangement direction are arranged to substantially coincide with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Nagamine, Ren Nakamichi, Akihiro Yamamura
  • Patent number: 11194262
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a brilliant image forming part that forms a brilliant toner image using a brilliant toner, a color image forming part that forms a color toner image using a color toner, and a controller that controls a brilliant deposition amount of the brilliant toner and a color deposition amount of the color toner on a medium, wherein when the brilliant toner image is to be superimposed over the color toner image on the medium, the controller adjusts the brilliant deposition amount for the brilliant toner image in correspondence with a color type and the color deposition amount of the color toner that has been used for the color toner image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hayato Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11194079
    Abstract: A lens unit includes a first lens array including first lenses arranged in at least two lines; a second lens array including second lenses arranged in an arrangement relationship corresponding to the first lens array, the second lenses respectively facing the first lenses, the second lens array being arranged to face the first lens array so that each pair of the first and second lenses has a common optical axis; and a first light blocking member arranged between the first lens array and the second lens array and having first openings each being arranged to face the pair of the first and second lenses in a direction of the optical axis. An interval PXL from an array center position between two adjacent lines to the optical axis and an interval PXS from the array center position to an opening center of the first opening satisfy PXL<PXS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihiro Yamamura
  • Patent number: 11186459
    Abstract: A medium cutting device according to an embodiment may include: a fixed blade provided on one side with respect to a conveyance path in which a medium is conveyed in a thickness direction of the medium orthogonal to a surface of the medium and including a cutting edge thereof; a rotary blade provided on the other side with respect to the conveyance path in the thickness direction, and including a cutting edge thereof, wherein the rotary blade is configured to be rotated in a rotation direction so that the cutting edge of the rotary blade passes by the cutting edge of the fixed blade to cut at a cutting position the medium being conveyed; and a guide member provided upstream of the cutting position in a conveyance direction of the medium and configured to bias the medium toward the rotary blade side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya Yamada, Naoki Kanzawa
  • Patent number: 11188006
    Abstract: A developer supply member according to an embodiment may be configured such that in a case where a developer supply member is rotated at a circumferential speed of 136.1 mm/sec while an abrasive film including a grain size of 30 ?m fixed on a stainless steel indenter including a surface in a shape of a 50 mm squire and a thickness of 10 mm is pressed into an elastic layer of the developer supply member by 0.73 mm, an amount of decrease in an outer diameter of the developer supply member, obtained by subtracting a value of the outer diameter of the developer supply member when the indenter is separated from the developer supply member 250 seconds after the pressed-into amount of the indenter reaches 0.73 mm from a value of the outer diameter of the developer supply member before the indenter is pressed into, is 0.03 mm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kouhei Jougataki
  • Patent number: 11180334
    Abstract: A medium processing device includes a conveyance guide that forms a conveyance path, a reference surface guide that is provided at one side of the conveyance path, a trigger sensor that detects a rear end of the medium in the conveyance direction, a first alignment roller and a second alignment roller for aligning the medium with the reference surface guide. The first alignment roller is provided at the middle, in a width of the conveyance path. The second alignment roller is provided between the reference surface guide and the first alignment roller in the width direction. The second alignment roller is provided at a downstream side of the first alignment roller in the conveyance direction. A space from the first alignment roller to the second alignment roller in the conveyance direction is longer than a space from the trigger sensor to the first alignment roller in the conveyance direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20210356627
    Abstract: An optical head comprises a substrate on which optical elements are arranged in a main scanning direction, a lens unit that transmits light emitted from the optical elements or light entering the optical elements, and a holder that holds the lens unit. The holder has a sidewall extending in the main scanning direction. The sidewall has a hole at a position facing the lens unit. A fixing member is provided in the hole. The fixing member fixes the lens unit to the sidewall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masamitsu NAGAMINE
  • Patent number: 11176073
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a power-source controller, a data processing device, a physical-layer section, a communication controller, and a state controller. The power-source controller controls a first power-source setting and a second power-source setting. The second power-source setting causes less electric power consumption than the first power-source setting. The communication controller performs the communication with the data processing device through a predetermined communication path and the physical-layer section under the first power-source setting. The communication controller stops the communication with the data processing device through the communication path and the physical-layer section under the second power-source setting. The state controller maintains the second communication state with respect to the data processing device side of the communication path while electric power supply to the physical-layer section is reduced under the second power-source setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Syuhei Mitani, Akira Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11178199
    Abstract: Provided is an information delivery apparatus for distributing information to a plurality of communication terminals, the information delivery apparatus including: a terminal-information memory unit for storing terminal information of the plurality of communication terminals serving as information delivery destinations; an address-type-selection-information memory unit for storing address type selection information, which is for selecting an address type, for one network segment or each of a plurality of network segments; a transmission-address determination unit for determining address information to be applied based on the terminal information in the terminal-information memory unit and the address type selection information in the address-type-selection-information memory unit; and a transmission unit for transmitting the information by using the address information determined by the transmission-address determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoshi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11175622
    Abstract: An image formation apparatus according to an embodiment may include: an apparatus body; an image formation unit configured to form an image; a movable unit accommodated in the apparatus body and supporting the image formation unit; a guide part configured to guide the movable unit from an inside of the apparatus body in a pull-out direction; a first rotatable member provided to the apparatus body and configured to guide the movable unit in the pull-out direction; and a second rotatable member provided to the movable unit and configured to be engaged with the guide part at a position on an upstream side of the first rotatable member in the pull-out direction. In a state where the movable unit is guided by the first rotatable member with the movable unit being moved in the pull-out direction, the second rotatable member and the guide part are disengaged from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Totsuka
  • Patent number: 11175616
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a cover; a power supply that supplies a drive system supply voltage and a control system supply voltage in an operating mode, and that supplies the control system supply voltage without supplying the drive system supply voltage in a power saving mode; an interlock switch including a first terminal that receives the drive system supply voltage, a second terminal that receives the control system supply voltage, and a third terminal connected to a line for supplying the drive system supply voltage to an image forming portion, the interlock switch connecting the first and third terminals when the cover is closed, and connecting the second and third terminals when the cover is open; and a detector that, when the control system supply voltage is applied to the line in the power saving mode, stores information indicating that the cover has been opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Kato
  • Patent number: 11170259
    Abstract: A machine learning device includes a state variable acquiring section, a teaching data acquiring section, and a learned model generating section. The state variable acquiring section acquires, as state variables: feature information that is information regarding a feature of an actual printed matter on which printing has been actually performed by an image forming apparatus; medium information that is information regarding a print medium used in the actual printed matter; and first control information that is information regarding control performed when the actual printed matter has been outputted. The teaching data acquiring section acquires, as teaching data, second control information that is information regarding control that causes the feature information to fall within a predetermined threshold. The learned model generating section generates a learned model by performing machine learning on the basis of the pieces of information acquired by the state variable acquiring section and the teaching data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Oikawa, Kunio Kanai, Atsushi Kitahara, Toshiaki Takamune
  • Patent number: 11169481
    Abstract: A medium cutting device according to an embodiment may include: a fixed blade provided on one side with respect to a conveyance path in which a medium is conveyed in a thickness direction of the medium orthogonal to a surface of the medium and including a cutting edge thereof; a rotary blade provided on the other side with respect to the conveyance path in the thickness direction, and including a cutting edge thereof, wherein the rotary blade is rotatable and configured to be rotated in a rotation direction so that the cutting edge of the rotary blade passes through the cutting edge of the fixed blade to cut the medium being conveyed. The rotary blade includes, on an outer circumferential surface, a recessed portion provided on a side of the cutting edge of the rotary blade in a reverse direction opposite to the rotation direction of the rotary blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Soga
  • Patent number: 11163248
    Abstract: A fixing device includes a belt member, a heater, a base layer, and an opposed layer. The heater is provided on an inner circumferential surface of the belt member. The base layer includes a first surface on a heater side and a second surface on an opposite side to the first surface. The opposed layer covers the second surface and is opposed to the inner circumferential surface of the belt member. The base layer and the opposed layer satisfy the following conditional expression (1), 0<(Tb×Da)/(Ta×Db)?1.17??(1) where Ta is a thickness of the base layer in millimeters, Tb is a thickness of the opposed layer in millimeters, Da is a thermal diffusivity of the base layer in square millimeters per second, and Db is a thermal diffusivity of the opposed layer in square millimeters per second.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takenori Shimada
  • Patent number: 11163257
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body; a cover member that is provided rotatable in a rotation direction about a rotation axis with respect to the apparatus main body, having an opening part, a fuser that fuses a toner image formed on each medium of media wherein the fuser is attached to the apparatus main body by being inserted through the opening part and detached from the apparatus main body by being pulled out of the opening part; and a sub cover member that has an surface portion and is attached to the fuser, wherein in a state in which the fuser is attached to the image forming apparatus, the surface portion of the sub cover is arranged within the opening part, the sub cover member moves in the rotation direction in correspondence with the rotation of the cover member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasumasa Sagawa