Patents by Inventor Yusuke CHIKA
Yusuke CHIKA 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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Publication number: 20240104322Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plural image forming units each having a plural image forming sections, and an intermediate transfer body on which toner images formed by the plural image forming sections are primarily transferred; a plural secondary transfer units that are provided corresponding to the plural the image forming units, and secondarily transfer the toner images of the intermediate transfer body to a recording medium; and a processor configured to: in response to an instruction for adjusting misalignment of the toner images, execute a mode in which a first chart for checking amounts of misalignment between a toner image formed by a reference image forming section and the toner images formed by another image forming section, for each image forming unit, and a second chart for checking amounts of misalignment between toner images formed by the reference image forming sections of the plural image forming units are secondarily transferred to the recording medium and output, and an input of a fiType: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yuzo FUJITA, Takumi NISHIKATA, Eiichi WAIDA, Yusuke CHIKA, Kazunobu UCHIYAMA, Hideo KIMURA
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Publication number: 20240103432Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes plural image forming units including plural image forming sections and an intermediate transfer body to which a toner image formed on the plural image forming sections is primarily transferred, and a processor, in which wherein the processor is configured to, in a case where, during image formation using any of the image forming units among the image forming units, in a case where a consumable of any of the image forming sections of the image forming unit is insufficient, an image forming section of an identical color to the image forming section of which the consumable is insufficient is present in another image forming unit, and a storage medium for storing management information for managing a consumable unit is not provided in the consumable unit attached to the image forming section of which the consumable is insufficient, ask a user whether or not to exchange the consumable unit attached to the image forming section of which the consumable is insufficient and a consumType: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Kazunobu Uchiyama, Takumi Nishikata, Eiichi Waida, Hideo Kimura, Yusuke Chika, Yuzo Fujita
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Publication number: 20240085826Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes plural image forming units including plural image forming sections and an intermediate transfer body to which a toner image formed on the plural image forming sections is primarily transferred, and a processor, in which the processor is configured to, in a case where a printing instruction is received in a state in which an image forming section having a combination of identical colors is set for each of the plural image forming units, execute the printing instruction by using an image forming unit that is in a state in which image formation is able to be executed among the plural image forming units.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Eiichi WAIDA, Takumi NISHIKATA, Yusuke CHIKA, Kazunobu UCHIYAMA, Hideo KIMURA, Yuzo FUJITA
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Publication number: 20240069480Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plural image forming units each having a plural image forming sections, and an intermediate transfer body on which toner images formed by the plural image forming sections are primarily transferred, a plural secondary transfer units that are provided corresponding to the plural image forming units, and secondarily transfer the toner images of the intermediate transfer body to a recording medium, and a processor, in which each image forming unit has the image forming section of the same color, and the processor is configured to: in response to an instruction to output a color chart of the same color, execute a mode in which the color chart of the toner image having a density of intermediate gradation, formed by the image forming section of the same color for each image forming unit, is secondarily transferred to the recording medium and output.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Takumi NISHIKATA, Yusuke CHIKA, Eiichi WAIDA, Kazunobu UCHIYAMA, Hideo KIMURA, Yuzo FUJITA
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Publication number: 20230100727Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes first and second processors controlling first and second image formers that form first and second images using color material having first and second color compositions, the second image to be superimposed on the first image; and a display displaying information. If an image formation instruction, including information indicating that the first and second images are to be superimposed is received, with a different image formation instruction being received, the first processor causes the first image former to form the first image in accordance with a first image formation instruction, corresponding to the first color composition, out of the image formation instruction and the different image formation instruction; and transmit to the second processor a second image formation instruction corresponding to the second color composition. The second processor causes the second image former to form the second image in accordance with the second image formation instruction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yusuke CHIKA, Takumi NISHIKATA, Kazunobu UCHIYAMA, Eiichi WAIDA
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Publication number: 20230096828Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a first processor configured to control a first image former that forms a first image using a color material having a first color composition and a second processor configured to control a second image former that forms, using a color material having a second color composition, a second image to be superimposed on the first image. The first processor is configured to cause the first image former to form the first image in accordance with a first image formation instruction, corresponding to the first color composition, out of the image formation instruction and the first different image formation instruction, and transmit to the second processor a second image formation instruction corresponding to the second color composition. The second processor is configured to cause the second image former to form the second image in accordance with the second image formation instruction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Kazunobu UCHIYAMA, Takumi NISHIKATA, Eiichi WAIDA, Yusuke CHIKA
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Patent number: 11307812Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first processor configured to control a transporter that transports a sheet and a first image forming section that forms an image on the sheet transported by the transporter, and a second processor configured to control a second image forming section that forms an image on the sheet transported by the transporter. The first processor and the second processor are contained in a single housing. The first processor is configured to perform transport preparation for transporting the sheet at the transporter and receive, from the second processor, a completion notification corresponding to a preparation command, for performing image formation preparation in the second image forming section, transmitted to the second processor via an inside of the housing, and subsequently cause the transporter to transport the sheet and the first image forming section to form the image.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Takumi Nishikata, Kazunobu Uchiyama, Eiichi Waida, Yusuke Chika
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Publication number: 20210373816Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first processor configured to control a transporter that transports a sheet and a first image forming section that forms an image on the sheet transported by the transporter, and a second processor configured to control a second image forming section that forms an image on the sheet transported by the transporter. The first processor and the second processor are contained in a single housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2020Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Takumi NISHIKATA, Kazunobu UCHIYAMA, Eiichi WAIDA, Yusuke CHIKA
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Patent number: 11163251Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a first processor and a second processor are provided. When the two processors receive a cooperative command for forming images respectively at first and second image forming sections, the first processor transmits a preparation command for performing image formation preparation in the second image forming section to the second processor, and the second processor performs the image formation preparation in the second image forming section and transmits a completion notification to the first processor upon completion, and the first processor executes an image forming process.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Takumi Nishikata, Kazunobu Uchiyama, Eiichi Waida, Yusuke Chika
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Patent number: 11126122Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first processor and a second processor. The first processor controls a transporter that transports a sheet and a first image forming section that forms an image on the sheet transported by the transporter. The second processor controls a second image forming section that forms an image on the sheet transported by the transporter.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Takumi Nishikata, Kazunobu Uchiyama, Eiichi Waida, Yusuke Chika
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Patent number: 10817762Abstract: A printing device includes: an acquisition section that acquires print information including the number of print sheets and the number of print copies relating to a print job; and a control section that performs a control to output a print product to a first output section, to switch from the first output section to a second output section using the print information if the number of prints will exceed a full storage capacity of the first output section halfway through a process from first print of a first job to Y-th copy of an X-th job, provided that X and Y are not simultaneously 1, and to output a print product to the second output section from first print of the Y-th copy of the X-th job.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Chika, Hiroshi Kimura, Akinori Kashiwagi
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Publication number: 20200311500Abstract: A printing device includes: an acquisition section that acquires print information including the number of print sheets and the number of print copies relating to a print job; and a control section that performs a control to output a print product to a first output section, to switch from the first output section to a second output section using the print information if the number of prints will exceed a full storage capacity of the first output section halfway through a process from first print of a first job to Y-th copy of an X-th job, provided that X and Y are not simultaneously 1, and to output a print product to the second output section from first print of the Y-th copy of the X-th job.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke CHIKA, Hiroshi KIMURA, Akinori KASHIWAGI