Patents by Inventor Toshie Nakamoto
Toshie Nakamoto has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9465326Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer body, an image forming device including an image carrier (carrier), a developing device that develops an electrostatic latent image on the carrier into a toner image with a two-component developer (toner and carrier), a first transfer device that transfers the toner image onto the intermediate transfer body, and a first cleaning device that cleans the carrier's surface after the transfer process, a second transfer device that transfers the toner image onto a recording medium, a second cleaning device that cleans the intermediate transfer body's surface after the transfer process, a power-supplying device that supplies a developing bias, a first transfer bias, and a second transfer bias to the developing device, the first transfer device, and the second transfer device, respectively, and a controller that controls to perform a toner discharging operation of forming a toner image to be discharged on the carrier.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2015Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Akihisa Maruyama, Toshie Nakamoto
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Patent number: 9223277Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes at least one imaging device including at least a photoconductor, a charging device, an exposure device, a developing device, and a transfer device; a detector that detects that the photoconductor of the at least one imaging device has reached the end of a life of the photoconductor; and a controller that controls the at least one imaging device under an imaging condition including a charge condition, an exposure condition, a development condition, and a transfer condition. After the controller acquires detection information of the detector, the controller controls the at least one imaging device by changing the imaging condition to a condition that decreases an image quality.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2015Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshie Nakamoto, Yusuke Kitagawa
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Publication number: 20150234335Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes at least one imaging device including at least a photoconductor, a charging device, an exposure device, a developing device, and a transfer device; a detector that detects that the photoconductor of the imaging device has reached the end of a life of the photoconductor; and a controller that controls the imaging device under an imaging condition including a charge condition, an exposure condition, a development condition, and a transfer condition. After the controller acquires detection information of the detector, the controller controls the imaging device by changing the imaging condition to a condition that decreases an image quality.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2015Publication date: August 20, 2015Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshie NAKAMOTO, Yusuke KITAGAWA
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Patent number: 8737852Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a body, a developer recovery container, a detecting section, a power supply, a detection object part, a pair of wires, a conducting section, a drive section, and a determining section. The determining section determines the developer recovery container to have been used in a case where the developer is determined to be not present in the detection object part on the basis of information from the detecting section, and in a case where the developer is determined to be present in the detection object part, checks the information from the detecting section again after driving the drive section, and determines the recovery container to have not been used when the developer is determined to be not present in the detection object part and determines the recovery container to have been used when the developer is determined to be present in the detection object part.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2012Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Taku Aoshima, Tadashi Kiyama, Toshie Nakamoto, Hiroaki Akamatsu
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Patent number: 8687991Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms, on an image bearing member, an image for adjusting operations of the image forming apparatus, a container that contains toner removed from the image bearing member, and a controller that controls formation of the image for adjusting the operations of the image forming apparatus so that after an amount of toner contained in the container reaches a threshold value, an amount of toner removed from the image bearing member and to be contained in the container is reduced to less than before the amount of toner contained in the container reaches the threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2012Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroki Ando, Toshie Nakamoto
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Publication number: 20130164003Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a body, a developer recovery container, a detecting section, a power supply, a detection object part, a pair of wires, a conducting section, a drive section, and a determining section. The determining section determines the developer recovery container to have been used in a case where the developer is determined to be not present in the detection object part on the basis of information from the detecting section, and in a case where the developer is determined to be present in the detection object part, checks the information from the detecting section again after driving the drive section, and determines the recovery container to have not been used when the developer is determined to be not present in the detection object part and determines the recovery container to have been used when the developer is determined to be present in the detection object part.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2012Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Taku AOSHIMA, Tadashi KIYAMA, Toshie NAKAMOTO, Hiroaki AKAMATSU
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Publication number: 20130028618Abstract: A waste toner transport system includes a transport unit that has a transport space through which toner removed from a surface of an image bearing member is transported, where the transport space contains a transport member that rotates and transports the toner. The waste toner transport system further includes a container that contains the toner transported by the transport member, and a controller that controls rotation of the transport member so that an amount of toner transported by the transport member per unit time is decreased if an amount of the toner contained in the container reaches a threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2012Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroki ANDO, Toshie NAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20130028625Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms, on an image bearing member, an image for adjusting operations of the image forming apparatus, a container that contains toner removed from the image bearing member, and a controller that controls formation of the image for adjusting the operations of the image forming apparatus so that after an amount of toner contained in the container reaches a threshold value, an amount of toner removed from the image bearing member and to be contained in the container is reduced to less than before the amount of toner contained in the container reaches the threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2012Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroki ANDO, Toshie NAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20130011148Abstract: An information processing apparatus for an image forming apparatus including an image forming section that forms toner images based on first image data transferred onto a recording medium and based on second image data that is not transferred and a toner recovery section that recovers residual toner to a recovery container is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a first obtaining part that obtains image amounts representing toner amounts used for the respective toner images when a toner amount recovered to the recovery container reaches a first permissible amount, a correction part that corrects the respective image amounts by using correction factors set for the first and second image data, and an output part that outputs notification information indicating that the toner amount in the recovery container reaches a second permissible amount when a cumulative value of the corrected image amounts reaches a first threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2012Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Tadashi KIYAMA, Toshie NAKAMOTO, Hiroki ANDO
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Patent number: 8229309Abstract: An image forming device includes an image holding member and a charging unit. In a case in which an AC current, while being increased, is supplied to the charging unit in a state in which a DC voltage value and an AC voltage value applied to the charging unit are maintained, or a case in which a DC voltage, while being increased, is supplied to the charging unit in a state in which the AC voltage value applied to the charging unit is maintained, a current detection unit detects DC current values. An inflection point derivation unit derives an inflection point of a correlation line representing an correlation between the detected DC current values and the supply amounts. An execution unit executes pre-specified processing when a characteristic value of the derived inflection point reaches a pre-specified value.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2009Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomohiro Ono, Shinya Makiura, Tomokazu Kurita, Hiroki Ando, Toshie Nakamoto, Hideki Moriya, Masao Ohmori
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Patent number: 7945293Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus, includes a discrimination unit which, upon receiving a connection request from a device corresponding to the identification information stored in a memory unit, reads an information of the mode of connection corresponding to the device and discriminates whether the connection request matches the information of the mode of connection, and a transmission unit which, if it is discriminated by the discrimination unit that the connection request does not match the information of the mode of connection, rejects the connection request and transmits to the device a connection request based on the information of the mode of connection corresponding to the device.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2007Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Katsutoshi Kato, Toshie Nakamoto
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Publication number: 20100215385Abstract: An image forming device includes an image holding member and a charging unit. In a case in which an AC current, while being increased, is supplied to the charging unit in a state in which a DC voltage value and an AC voltage value applied to the charging unit are maintained, or a case in which a DC voltage, while being increased, is supplied to the charging unit in a state in which the AC voltage value applied to the charging unit is maintained, a current detection unit detects DC current values. An inflection point derivation unit derives an inflection point of a correlation line representing an correlation between the detected DC current values and the supply amounts. An execution unit executes pre-specified processing when a characteristic value of the derived inflection point reaches a pre-specified value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2009Publication date: August 26, 2010Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomohiro Ono, Shinya Makiura, Tomokazu Kurita, Hiroki Ando, Toshie Nakamoto, Hideki Moriya, Masao Ohmori
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Publication number: 20080081561Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus, includes a discrimination unit which, upon receiving a connection request from a device corresponding to the identification information stored in a memory unit, reads an information of the mode of connection corresponding to the device and discriminates whether the connection request matches the information of the mode of connection, and a transmission unit which, if it is discriminated by the discrimination unit that the connection request does not match the information of the mode of connection, rejects the connection request and transmits to the device a connection request based on the information of the mode of connection corresponding to the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2007Publication date: April 3, 2008Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Katsutoshi Kato, Toshie Nakamoto