Patents Assigned to Xerox
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20200097232
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit, a classifying unit, and an executing unit. The receiving unit receives an execution command for a process. The classifying unit classifies the process corresponding to the execution command as any of categories prepared in advance based on a character string included in an object to be processed in the process. The executing unit executes the process in accordance with the execution command received by the receiving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiaki NAKAHARA
  • CONTROL APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20200099728
    Abstract: There is provided a control apparatus including a processor, in which in a talk room, each of plural participating users among plural users registered for each user group is able to post information, and the processor is configured, when in the talk room, during an execution of a specific process, a second user who has been registered in a user group in which a first user is registered posts second information after the first user posts first information among a series of information related to the specific process, to process the second information as the series of information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takafumi HARUTA
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20200099798
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains, from an external apparatus, a data transmission condition that specifies a timing at which data regarding a state change of the information processing apparatus is transmitted to the external apparatus and that has been created on a basis of at least of an operation state of the information processing apparatus and a transmission unit that, if the data is generated as a result of a state change of the information processing apparatus, establishes, in accordance with the state change of the information processing apparatus, a first mode in which the data is transmitted to the external apparatus regardless of the timing specified by the data transmission condition or a second mode in which the data is transmitted to the external apparatus in accordance with the timing specified by the data transmission condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO.,LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi TAKAOKA
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20200099799
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory in which information on output devices corresponding to plural users participating in a group chat is stored; and a controller that, in a case where any one of the plural users gives a post indicative of an output command to output data on the group chat, performs control for outputting the data from output devices corresponding to one or more output destination users including a user who has not given the post indicative of the output command among the plural users in accordance with the information stored in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki OBAYASHI, Masaki KUROKAWA, Kenji NOMURA, Mamoru SASAMAE, Yujiro KOBAYASHI, Masaaki TAKEI, Kenji YUFU
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20200099806
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an information processing device body, an extension device to be additionally connected to the information processing device body, and a combined information generator that generates combined information to be used for displaying, on one screen, information indicating a basic function of the information processing device body together with information indicating an extended function of the extension device when the extension device is connected to the information processing device body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobukazu MIYOSHI, Shunji TSUNASHIMA, Terutake HAYASHI
  • DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH EXHAUST PORT FOR DISCHARGING AIR
    Publication number: 20200096901
    Abstract: A developing device includes: a container for accommodating developer, the container having an exhaust port; and a merging section where airflows directed from the interior of the container to the exhaust port join together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ayumi NOGUCHI, Shinichi KURAMOTO, Norihiro TAMAZAWA, Yoshitaka NAKAJIMA, Tomoyuki YOSHII, Masanori KATO, Ryota TOMISHI
  • XEROGRAPHIC 3D PRINTING METHOD FOR FORMING SHAPED OBJECTS
    Publication number: 20200094436
    Abstract: A shaped ceramic or metallic object is formed by sectioning a model of a shaped body into 2-dimensional slices. For each slice, a toner material is electrostatically printed on a polymer sheet. The toner material includes solid particles. The printed sheets are assembled into a stack and the stack is depolymerized and sintered to form the ceramic object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: CHRISTOPHER D. BLAIR, DAVID C. IRVING
  • DISPERSANT-ATTACHED POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE PARTICLE, COMPOSITION, LAYER-SHAPED ARTICLE, ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTORECEPTOR, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20200096889
    Abstract: A dispersant-attached polytetrafluoroethylene particle includes a polytetrafluoroethylene particle and a dispersant that attaches to a surface of the polytetrafluoroethylene particle and contains a fluorine atom. The particle size distribution index [D50-D10] is less than 50 nm and the electrical conductivity is 7 ?S/cm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wataru YAMADA
  • IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND BOARD
    Publication number: 20200096923
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a board; a semiconductor integrated circuit that is provided on the board and has a real-time clock circuit; a radiator that is provided at a position for covering the semiconductor integrated circuit and receives heat from the semiconductor integrated circuit and radiates the heat; and an oscillator that is provided in a space sandwiched between the board and the radiator and vibrates to supply a clock signal to the real-time clock circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shimpei KAWASHIMA
  • CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20200098365
    Abstract: A control device includes a first receiving unit that receives an operation instruction given by voice or generated from voice; a second receiving unit that receives information concerning a sound volume of the voice input to a voice input unit provided corresponding to a target apparatus; a target apparatus specifying unit that specifies a target apparatus on a basis of the information concerning the sound volume received by the second receiving unit; and a transmitting unit that transmits an operation command based on the operation instruction received by the first receiving unit to the target apparatus specified by the target apparatus specifying unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koichi SATO
  • DESIGN ASSISTING DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20200099804
    Abstract: A design assisting device includes a selecting unit and a display. The selecting unit selects, from among existing components that fit a specification required for a design target component, taking into consideration procurement information of the existing components, a target component candidate, which is a candidate for the target component, and selects, from among existing components that fit a specification required for a related component related to the target component, taking into consideration procurement information of the existing components, a related component candidate, which is a candidate for the related component. The display displays the target component candidate and the related component candidate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhisa IWASE
  • Packing member
    Patent number: 10597216
    Abstract: A packing member attached to an article to be packed, which is accommodated in a package box, to absorb an impact applied to the article, including: a first supporting part; a second supporting part; and a shock absorbing member connected to the first supporting part and the second supporting part. One of the first supporting part and the second supporting part is disposed so as to be partially in contact with the article in a state in which an impact is not applied. When an impact is applied, the shock absorbing member deforms to absorb the impact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Imai, Yohei Suzuki, Yasunori Uemura, Ryoji Sugimoto
  • Information processing apparatus
    Patent number: 10600198
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition section that acquires first information indicating whether or not a target person performs a specific behavior on a target object disposed in plural places and second information indicating a behavior of the target person and including a stay time in the plural places, for each target person, a calculation section that calculates an evaluation value indicating a probability of the target person who has not performed the specific behavior performing the specific behavior on the target object, based on the acquired first information, and an estimation section that extracts data on the target object disposed in the place having a stay time which is smaller than a predetermined value, based on the acquired second information, and estimates an opportunity loss for the target object based on the evaluation value calculated for the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke Ikeda
  • Printer and dryer for drying images on coated substrates in aqueous ink printers
    Patent number: 10596832
    Abstract: An aqueous ink printer includes a dryer that enables coated substrates printed with aqueous ink images to be adequately dried before discharge of the substrates. The dryer has a housing, a plurality of laser diodes, and a controller configured to operate the laser diodes with reference to ink coverage densities in an ink image and a speed of a media transport moving the substrate bearing the ink image as the substrate passes the plurality of diodes. The controller varies the intensity of the radiation emitted by the laser diodes to correspond with the ink coverage density opposite each laser diode as the ink image passes through the dryer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Seemit Praharaj, Douglas K. Herrmann, Jason M. LeFevre, Chu-Heng Liu, Paul J. McConville
  • Polyimide precursor solution and polyimide film
    Patent number: 10597505
    Abstract: A polyimide precursor solution contains resin particles and a polyimide precursor. The resin particles in the polyimide precursor solution have a volume particle size distribution with one or more peaks. The volume frequency of a peak having the highest volume frequency of the one or more peaks accounts for 90% to 100% of the total volume frequency of all peaks of the volume particle size distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsumi Nukada, Tomoya Sasaki, Takashi Imai
  • Single extruder configuration that enables multi-color extrusions in three-dimensional object printers
    Patent number: 10596798
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing system has a plurality of manifolds in an extruder. Each manifold is connected to at least one nozzle of the extruder to enable the at least one nozzle to extrude thermoplastic material through a corresponding aperture in a faceplate mounted to the extruder. A plurality of valves is configured between each manifold and each nozzle connected to the manifold to enable the nozzles connected to a manifold to extrude thermoplastic material from the manifold selectively. The faceplate is also configured for rotation about an axis perpendicular to the faceplate to enable different orientations of the nozzles in the apertures of the faceplate. The different manifolds of the extruder enable a plurality of thermoplastic materials having a different property to be extruded simultaneously so the materials can join to one another while the materials are at an elevated temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Mantell, Peter J. Nystrom
  • Search device, search method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for performing a search for candidate experts and displaying results of the search
    Patent number: 10599658
    Abstract: A search device includes a selecting unit, a calculating unit, and a presenting unit. The selecting unit analyzes use history of a communication tool and selects a candidate expert having a relationship with a searcher who wishes to search for an expert having some expertise in a specified category. The calculating unit analyzes expertise levels of users of the communication tool, the expertise levels being regarding the category. The presenting unit presents, as the expert, to the searcher, a candidate expert selected as one having some level of relationship with the searcher and having some level of expertise on the basis of the analysis by the selecting unit and the calculating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuta Watanabe
  • Polyimide precursor composition and method of preparing polyimide molded article
    Patent number: 10597493
    Abstract: A polyimide precursor composition includes a solvent including water and a polyimide precursor including a group having a triple bond at a terminal thereof, which is dissolved in the solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kana Miyazaki, Tsuyoshi Miyamoto, Tomoya Sasaki
  • Automated stock evaluation system and method
    Patent number: 10599086
    Abstract: A system for predicting performance for a stock includes memory which stores a crowdsourcing component, which acquires reports from multiple printers in a fleet of printers. The reports include performance data and printer attributes used when printing one of a plurality of stocks. A learning component learns a prediction model, based on the acquired reports. A prediction component uses the learned prediction model to predict at least one of: whether a selected stock will perform adequately on one of the printers in the fleet of printers, an alternative to the selected stock which is predicted to perform better than the selected stock, on one of the printers in the fleet of printers, and a stock which will perform adequately on one of the printers in the fleet of printers. A processor, in communication with the memory, implements the components. An output device outputs the prediction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Charles Dickinson, James E. Baxter
  • Capacitive load driving circuit and image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 10596807
    Abstract: A capacitive load driving circuit includes a first switching element, a second switching element, a third switching element, a fourth switching element and voltage dropper elements. The first switching element is provided on a first charging path extending from a power supply to a capacitive load. The second switching element is provided on a second charging path extending from a capacitor to the capacitive load. The third switching element is provided on a first discharging path extending from the capacitive load to a ground. The fourth switching element is provided on a second discharging path extending from the capacitive load to the capacitor. The voltage dropper elements are provided on each of control signal power supply paths to the first switching element, to the second switching element, to the third switching element and to the fourth switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chikaho Ikeda