Patents Issued in August 24, 2017
  • Publication number: 20170242355
    Abstract: A toner having a toner particle that is produced through a step of melt-kneading a resin composition containing a binder resin, a colorant, a hydrocarbon wax, and a wax dispersing agent, cooling the obtained kneaded material, pulverizing the obtained cooled material, and heat treating the resulting resin particles, wherein the wax dispersing agent is a polymer provided by graft polymerizing a styrene-acrylic polymer onto a polypropylene, the styrene-acrylic polymer is a polymer having a monomer unit derived from a cycloalkyl (meth)acrylate, and specific relationships are satisfied where Mp(p) is the melting point (° C.) of the polypropylene and Mp(w) is the melting point (° C.) of the hydrocarbon wax.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Koh Ishigami, Takeshi Ohtsu, Kentaro Kamae, Ryuichiro Matsuo, Yosuke Iwasaki, Wakiko Katsumata, Kenta Mitsuiki, Masaharu Miura, Yuichi Mizo
  • Publication number: 20170242356
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles, polishing agent particles which have a number particle size distribution having two peaks, and fatty acid metal salt particles which have a number particle size distribution having one peak, wherein the toner satisfies relationships expressed by expressions: (1) Da?0.5×Dt, (2) Dc?0.5×Dt and (3) Dt?Db, wherein Da represents a particle diameter of a small-diameter-side peak in the two peaks of the number particle size distribution of the polishing agent particles, Db represents a particle diameter of a large-diameter-side peak in the two peaks of the number particle size distribution of the polishing agent particles, Dc represents a particle diameter of a peak of the number particle size distribution of the fatty acid metal salt particles, and Dt represents a volume average particle diameter of the toner particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka SAITO, Fusako KIYONO, Mona TASAKI, Hiroki OMORI, Yuka YAMAGISHI
  • Publication number: 20170242357
    Abstract: An image forming method of the present invention uses a specific toner set. The toner set includes a yellow toner, a magenta toner, a cyan toner and a black toner, and each of these toners contains an amorphous resin, a crystalline resin and a colorant. The colorant of the black toner contains a conductive black colorant. There is a specific relationship between an exothermic peak temperature of the black toner and exothermic peak temperatures of the chromatic color toners.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Aya Shirai, Junya Onishi, Shiro Hirano, Kouji Sugama, Noboru Ueda
  • Publication number: 20170242358
    Abstract: The toner of the present invention is an electrostatic latent image developing toner, and has a toner base particle. The toner base particle contains a binder resin including a crystalline resin, and a release agent. The toner has the maximum value G?MAX at a temperature equal to or lower than Tm, among specific storage elastic modulus ratios, of 2.2 or more. The Tm represents a peak top temperature (° C.) of a specific endothermic peak in DSC of the toner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Takaki KAWAMURA, Kenshi MIYAJIMA, Junya UEDA
  • Publication number: 20170242359
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes a plurality of toner particles each including a core and a shell layer covering a surface of the core. The shell layer includes a resin film and a plurality of resin particles. The shell layer contains a first resin forming the resin film, a second resin forming the resin particles, and an alkyl benzene sulfonic acid compound. The first resin is more hydrophobic than the second resin. The second resin is more positively chargeable than the first resin. The second resin has a repeating unit capable of forming a salt with the alkyl benzene sulfonic acid compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yusuke WASHINO
  • Publication number: 20170242360
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes a plurality of toner particles each including a core containing a binder resin and a shell layer covering a surface of the core. The shell layer contains a copolymer of at least two compounds including a compound represented by formula (1) shown below. In the formula (1), R11 represents a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted alkyl group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 8, and R12 represents an optionally substituted linear alkyl group having a carbon number of at least 8 and no greater than 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Haruhiro NISHITERA
  • Publication number: 20170242361
    Abstract: The conductive member of this disclosure is formed of a UV cure resin obtained by curing under ultraviolet ray radiation a composition containing a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer (A), a photo polymerization initiator (B) and an ionic conductive agent (C), wherein: the ionic conductive agent (C) contains an organic boron complex salt and a compound having a structure expressed with the following general formula(1), and a compounding amount of the organic boron complex salt is 0.2 parts by mass or more per 100 parts by mass of a curing component in the composition. —SO2—NX—SO2— ??(1) (In the general formula (1), X represents an alkali metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyohiko ATAMI, Takuro SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170242362
    Abstract: A blower duct includes a path section and multiple suppressing sections. The path section connects an inlet and an outlet and allows air to flow therethrough. The suppressing sections are provided at different locations in the air flowing direction and suppress the flow of the air. The path section at least has an entrance path section and a first bent path section. One of the suppressing sections is a first suppressing section including a blocking portion and openings. The blocking portion is disposed in the first bent path section and blocks the flow of the air. The openings are disposed at different positions in one direction and include a first opening disposed closest to the inlet at a first height position where a height from a reference base surface of the first bent path section is larger than the remaining opening or openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori MOMOMURA, Yuki NAGAMORI, Masafumi KUDO
  • Publication number: 20170242363
    Abstract: Techniques for liquid electrography printing are described herein. In at least some examples herein, a liquid electrographic printer includes a charging element for charging a photo imaging plate (PIP). A light source irradiates light onto the charge element. The irradiated light is to heat the charge element to a selected temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Omer Gila, Seongsik Chang, Michael H. Lee
  • Publication number: 20170242364
    Abstract: An optical writing device and an image forming apparatus incorporating the optical writing device. The optical writing device includes two or more light sources, a pixel clock generator to measure a scanning speed of one of the two or more light sources and generate a pixel clock of a cycle corrected according to the measured scanning speed, a pulse data generation and output unit to generate pulse width data and shift data for the pixel clock generated by the pixel clock generator to output the generated pulse width data and the generated shift data for each one of the two or more light sources, and a plurality of image pulse generation and output units to generate an image pulse. In the optical writing device, the plurality of image pulse generation and output units are supplied with the pixel clock in common.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masashi TOKUDA
  • Publication number: 20170242365
    Abstract: An aftermarket electronic circuit has a first data processor and a second data processor, the first data processor adapted to communicate with an imaging machine having a processor associated with a block of memory dedicated for an imaging unit blocking list having at least one blocking position. The second data processor contains blocking data, and the first data processor is adapted to access the blocking data from the second data processor. The first data processor is adapted to provide the blocking data to be read by the imaging machine and written to at least one byte of each available blocking position of the blocking list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Steven Miller, Herman Schnell
  • Publication number: 20170242366
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing white toner includes a white toner particle and a yellow toner particle that includes an organic yellow pigment, wherein a content ratio (by number) of the yellow toner particles to all of toner particles included in the toner is from 0.01% by number to 3% by number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi KAMIWAKI, Tetsuya TAGUCHI, Masaru TAKAHASHI, Shotaro TAKAHASHI, Tomoaki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20170242367
    Abstract: A developer supply container 1 includes a cylindrical portion 2k capable of accommodating a developer; a second discharge opening 4a, provided on the cylindrical portion 2k, for permitting discharge of the developer; a storage portion 4d provided in the cylindrical portion 2k and capable of storing a predetermined amount of the developer through the second discharge opening 4a; a pump portion 3a having a changeable inside volume of cylindrical portion 2k in a longitudinal direction of the supply container 1 to apply a pressure at least to the second discharge opening 4a; a fluid communication path 20a providing fluid communication between the pump portion 3a and the storage portion 4d; and a partition 20 provided in a connecting portion between the pump portion 3a and the fluid communication path 20a for suppressing flow of the air which is produced by pump portion 3a and which is directed to toward cylindrical portion 2k at least in a discharging operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Manabu Jimba, Ayatomo Okino, Nobuyuki Yomoda, Yusuke Oizumi, Akihito Kamura
  • Publication number: 20170242368
    Abstract: A rotation detection device includes a light emitting portion, a light-passing control member, and a light receiving portion. The light-passing control member controls passing of the light from the light emitting portion. The light receiving portion outputs a light receiving signal based on the light received by the respective light receiving elements as detection signals representing detection results of the rotation by the rotator. A first virtual extended line that extends the first opening margin and a light-receiving-portion center line along the first direction passing through the respective light receiving elements at the light receiving portion pass through positions shifted from a rotational center of the light-passing control member. The light receiving portion is arranged such that the first virtual extended line corresponds to the light-receiving-portion center line, when the first opening margin passes through an optical path from the light emitting portion to the light receiving portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yuta NOHARA
  • Publication number: 20170242369
    Abstract: Provided is a developer container, including: a conveyance member configured to convey a developer; a vibration member arranged along an inclined surface opposed to the conveyance member and configured to vibrate through contact with the conveyance member; and a protruding portion protruding from the inclined surface and configured to be held in contact with the vibration member, wherein the conveyance member is a flexible sheet-like member, wherein, under a state in which the vibration member is brought into contact with the protruding portion, a first gap and a second gap are formed between the vibration member and the inclined surface with the protruding portion as a boundary, and wherein at least a part of the first gap and the second gap is located in a region of a rotation locus of the conveyance member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Takayuki Yada, Tetsuya Numata
  • Publication number: 20170242370
    Abstract: A belt device includes a movable belt, a detection target, an optical detector, and a cleaner. The belt is looped around a plurality of supporting members. The detection target is disposed extending along a direction of belt movement on at least one side of the belt in a width direction of the belt intersecting with the don of belt movement. The optical detector detects the detection target. The cleaner is attached to at least one of the plurality of supporting members to clean the detection target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Noriaki Takenaga, Kazuhiro Shimojima, Masami Takeshita
  • Publication number: 20170242371
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a belt-shaped image bearer, a transferer, a guide, two rotators, and a support. The image bearer has an image bearing surface to bear an image thereon. The transferer forms a transfer section between the transferer and the image hearer, to transfer the image onto a recording medium. The guide is disposed upstream from the transfer section in a delivery direction of the recording medium, to guide the recording medium toward the transfer section. The two rotators are disposed upstream from the transfer section in a moving direction of the image bearer and in contact with a non-image bearing surface of the image bearer opposite to the image bearing surface, a first rotator being closer to the transfer section than a second rotator. The support supports the first rotator and the guide and adjusts a position of the first rotator and a position of the guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Seiichi KOGURE, Naohiro KUMAGAI, Junpei FUJITA, Kazuki YOGOSAWA, Tatsuya OHSUGI, Kenji SUGIURA, Yuuji WADA, Takehide MIZUTANI
  • Publication number: 20170242372
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, a tubular member includes a siloxane-modified polyetherimide, a polyetherimide except the siloxane-modified polyetherimide, a polyether ether ketone, and a conductive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji OMORI, Fumio DAISHI, Tomoo MATSUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20170242373
    Abstract: A tubular member includes a siloxane-modified polyetherimide, a polyetherimide except the siloxane-modified polyetherimide, and a conductive material, wherein a content of the siloxane-modified polyetherimide with respect to a total content of the siloxane-modified polyetherimide and the polyetherimide except the siloxane-modified polyetherimide at a surface layer portion is 40% by weight or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoo MATSUSHIMA, Fumio DAISHI, Kenji OMORI
  • Publication number: 20170242374
    Abstract: A transfer device includes a transport belt that contacts with a photoreceptor, and transports a recording medium; a transfer roll that transfers the toner image formed on a surface of the photoreceptor to the recording medium while pressing the recording medium to the photoreceptor through the transport belt; an adjusting unit that adjusts a pressing force of the transfer roll against the recording medium; and a controller that controls the adjusting unit so that a first pressing force is stronger than a second pressing force. The first pressing force is the pressing force after the recording medium starts to pass through a transfer position of the transfer roll and is moved by a predetermined distance. The second pressing force is the pressing force when the recording medium starts to pass through the transfer position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuya FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20170242375
    Abstract: Provided is a transparent roll around which a transparent belt that transmits light from a light source is wound and which presses the transparent belt in a nip portion and transmits the light from the light source, the transparent roll including a base layer, and an elastic layer that is exposed on a transparent belt side with respect to the base layer and is elastically deformed greater than the base layer in the nip portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoko MIYAHARA, Takashi MATSUBARA, Tetsuro KODERA
  • Publication number: 20170242376
    Abstract: The present invention relates to temperature control of an external heating belt. A controller is capable of executing a mode in which energization to corresponding halogen heaters is controlled using outputs of respective thermistors and a mode in which the energization to the two halogen heaters is controlled using the output of the other thermistor without using the output of one thermistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Masahiro Tsujibayashi, Nobuhiro Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20170242377
    Abstract: A fixation device includes: an endless fixation belt an outer surface of which comes into contact with a printing medium at a fixation position; a contact member which includes a contact surface in contact with an inner surface of the fixation belt at the fixation position, the contact surface being displaceable, in a region corresponding to an end portion in the width direction of the printing medium; and a support member which includes a support surface supporting the contact member. A second distance from a reference passage surface of the printing medium to a widthwise end position on the support surface is larger than a first distance from the reference passage surface of the printing medium to a widthwise center position on the support surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Teruo SOEDA
  • Publication number: 20170242378
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body having an image forming unit that is configured to an image on a recording material, and a fixing unit removably attached to the apparatus body to fix the image on the recording material. The fixing unit includes a roll member having a roll body and a bearing provided at each end of the roll body to support the roll body rotatably, a pressurizing member provided in contact with the roll member to form a fixing pressurizing portion through which the recording material passes, and a storage member that stores the roll member and the pressurizing member in a state in which the roll member and the pressurizing member are pressed with a predetermined pressure. The apparatus body includes a positioning member that is in contact with the bearing to position the roll member in a transport direction of the recording material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichiro SAITO, Koichi IMAZU
  • Publication number: 20170242379
    Abstract: A fixing device includes an endless belt, a planar heater, a thermal fuse element, and an elastic member. The belt fixes a toner image to a recording medium. The heater heats the endless belt. The thermal fuse element has ends, has a length equal to or larger than an image forming width of the toner image formed on the recording medium, and is in contact with the heater. The elastic member supports at least one of the ends of the thermal fuse element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro UEHARA, Kazuyoshi ITOH
  • Publication number: 20170242380
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum; an image forming portion for forming an image on the drum; a fixing portion for fixing an image on a sheet, while heating the sheet in a fixing nip, wherein the fixing portion is provided above the drum; the fixing portion including a first roller contactable to the image on the sheet, a second roller cooperative with the first roller to form the fixing nip, first and second covers for protecting the first and second rollers, respectively; and at least one opening for fluid communication between an inside and an outside of the fixing portion, the opening being provided in the first cover at a position lower than a line connecting a rotation axis of the first roller and a rotation axis of the second roller, as seen along a rotational axis of the second roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Naoki Hayashi, Keisuke Fujita
  • Publication number: 20170242381
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a cleaning member that cleans the image carrier, an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording material, and a controller that controls the image forming unit based on at least one of physical property information and dimension information of the cleaning member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi HAMADA, Shinya MAKIURA, Eiji NITTONO
  • Publication number: 20170242382
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a correction unit configure to correct image data based on a correction condition; an image bearing member; an image forming unit configured to form an image on the image bearing member, based on the corrected image data; a transfer unit configured to transfer the image onto a recording material; a measurement unit configured to measure a measurement image formed on the image bearing member; and a converting unit configured to convert, based on a conversion condition, a measurement result of the measurement image measured by the measurement unit. A printer controller controls the image forming unit to form the measurement image, control the measurement unit to measure the measurement image, control the converting unit to convert the measurement result of the measurement image, and generate the correction condition based on the measurement result converted by the converting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventor: Nobuhiko Zaima
  • Publication number: 20170242383
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus which forms an image on a medium on the basis of an input image signal includes: an image carrier configured to carry a developed toner image transferred to the medium on a photoreceptor layer; a contact member arranged so as to be in contact with the surface of the photoreceptor layer; a trace pattern generating unit configured to generate a trace pattern indicating specific information on the image forming apparatus; a composition unit configured to add the trace pattern to the image signal; and an acquiring unit configured to acquire information on the thickness of the photoreceptor layer of the image carrier, wherein the trace pattern is used for arranging a plurality of image areas at respective positions, and the trace pattern generating unit is configured to generate the trace pattern with the image area whose size is reduced in accordance with reduction of the thickness of the photoreceptor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Hironori AKASHI, Masahiro KOUZAKI
  • Publication number: 20170242384
    Abstract: A belt device includes a belt member, a detected unit, a window, an optical detector, and a regulation member. The belt member is movable in a direction of belt movement. The detected unit disposed on at least one side of the belt in a width direction of the belt intersecting with the direction of belt movement and extending in the direction of belt movement. The window transmits detection light emitted toward the detected unit and reflected light from the detected unit. The optical detector detects the detected unit. The regulation member is disposed on at least one side in a width direction of the window to keep the detected unit away from the window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventor: Sohichiroh ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20170242385
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conversion unit configured to convert image data based on a conversion condition corresponding to a type of halftoning, an image processing unit configured to perform the halftoning, an image forming unit configured to form an image, a measurement unit configured to measure a measuring image, an acquisition unit configured to acquire information related to the number of the sheets on which the measuring images are to be formed, and a controller configured to generate a first conversion condition corresponding to first halftoning based on a result of a first measuring image on a first sheet, and generate a second conversion condition corresponding to second halftoning based on a result of a second measuring image on a second sheet, wherein, based on the information, the controller controls whether to control the number of the first sheets is larger than the number of the second sheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventor: Tomohisa Itagaki
  • Publication number: 20170242386
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus that is capable of performing a first image forming mode that performs image formation at a first peripheral speed ratio representing a ratio of a peripheral speed of a developer bearing member to a peripheral speed of an image bearing member and a second image forming mode that performs the image formation at a second peripheral speed ratio different from the first peripheral speed ratio, and that detects an amount of a developer consumed in the image formation, based on an estimate of the amount of the developer consumed by one pixel and the number of pixels at a part at which the developer is consumed. The estimate of the amount of the developer consumed by the one pixel in the first image forming mode is different from that in the second image forming mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Yuichiro Hirata, Daisuke Baba
  • Publication number: 20170242387
    Abstract: A belt control device includes a holder to movably support a rotation shaft of at least one of the plurality of rotators around which a belt is looped, a contact part to contact an end of the belt as the belt moves in a belt width direction, a stationary frame part disposed facing the holder, a shaft moving device to move the rotation shaft as the belt moves, and at least one projection disposed on one of the stationary frame part and the holder. The projection is to contact the other of the stationary frame part and the holder. The projection includes a long projection having a contact portion extending in a shaft moving direction in which the rotation shaft moves, and the contact portion is contactable with the other of the stationary frame part and the holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshiki HOZUMI, Naomi SUGIMOTO, Hisashi KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20170242388
    Abstract: Provided is a sheet processing apparatus, including: a regulation portion configured to contact with an end edge of a sheet to be conveyed and to regulate a position of the sheet; a position adjustment portion configured to perform position adjustment on a sheet in a direction along an end edge of the sheet of which the end edge is in contact with the regulation portion; a folding portion configured to perform folding processing on a sheet which has been regulated by the regulation portion; and a control portion configured to execute: a first mode of causing the folding portion to perform the folding processing on a sheet which has been regulated by the regulation portion, without causing the position adjustment portion to perform the position adjustment on the sheet; and a second mode of causing the position adjustment portion to perform the position adjustment with respect to the regulated sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Kenichi Matsuno, Kazunori Endo
  • Publication number: 20170242389
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a sheet conveyance unit which includes a sheet conveyance path and conveys a sheet; a sheet detector which detects the sheet in the sheet conveyance path; a job acquiring unit which acquires a print job related to the sheet; an image forming unit which forms an image on the sheet; and a processor which controls the sheet conveyance unit to perform one of first sheet conveyance and second sheet conveyance, the first sheet conveyance being performed to convey the sheet in accordance with sheet information, the second sheet conveyance being performed to convey the sheet and discharge the sheet to outside in accordance with a result of detection, wherein when sheet conveyance is resumed after suspension, the processor controls the sheet conveyance unit to perform the second sheet conveyance on a remaining sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Minoru ASAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20170242390
    Abstract: A cable fixing mechanism has a guide member and a conductive member, and permits a flexible cable to be fixed that is formed in the shape of a strip with a plurality of conductive wires arranged parallel to one another inside a cover member. The guide member has a guide surface facing one face of the flexible cable, and is fixed to a frame made of metal. The conductive member is flexible, is fixed to the guide member to face the guide surface, and is in contact with the frame. By the restoring force of the conductive member elastically deformed when fixed to the guide member, the flexible cable is held between the conductive member and the guide surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Naoto MIYAKOSHI
  • Publication number: 20170242391
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus has an apparatus main body, a cover member, and a coupling member. The cover member is openable and closable relative to a side face of the apparatus main body. The coupling member couples the apparatus main body and the cover member together and is arranged inside the cover member when the cover member is closed. The coupling member is rotatable about a first rotation pivot relative to the apparatus main body. The cover member is rotatable about a second rotation pivot relative to the coupling member. When the cover member is opened relative to the apparatus main body, the rotation center of the cover member switches between the first and second rotation pivots during the opening operation of the cover member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi KOYANAGI
  • Publication number: 20170242392
    Abstract: A packing member includes a first recessed portion, a second recessed portion, a first flange connected to the first recessed portion at a first end, and a second flange connected to the second recessed portion at a first end. The first flange includes at least one first bent portion protruding in a direction intersecting a joined surface at which part of the first flange and part of the second flange are joined. When at least one of a second end of the first flange and a second end of the second flange is in contact with a surface other than the packing member, the second end of the first flange and the second end of the second flange can be moved along the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Kengo Sakai, Yoshimasa Komaki
  • Publication number: 20170242393
    Abstract: A cartridge includes a coupling member, a transmitted member, and a rotary member. The transmitted member includes an accommodating portion configured to accommodate the coupling member, and a protruded portion integrally formed with an inner wall of the accommodating portion and protruding from the inner wall toward an inside of the accommodating portion. The coupling member includes a free end portion having a rotational force receiving portion that receives a rotational force, a connected portion connected to the transmitted member in such a manner that at least a part of the connected portion can be accommodated in the accommodating portion, and a recessed portion provided at the connected portion so that the protruded portion can enter. An inclination angle of a rotation axis of the coupling member relative to a rotation axis of the transmitted member is variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Kensuke Sato, Tetsushi Uneme, Toshiki Fujino
  • Publication number: 20170242394
    Abstract: An image-forming apparatus includes: a main body; a toner cartridge having a first opening; a process cartridge having a photosensitive drum and a second opening; a positioning part; a transfer unit; and an urging member. The toner cartridge and process cartridge are attachable to and detachable from the main body in an axial direction of the photosensitive drum. The positioning part and transfer unit are positioned above the process cartridge attached to the main body. The positioning part fixes the attached process cartridge in position relative to the main body. The urging member urges the attached process cartridge toward the positioning part and urges the process cartridge such that such that the toner can be supplied from the toner cartridge to the process cartridge through the first opening and the second opening when the toner cartridge and the process cartridge are attached to the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventor: Shougo Sato
  • Publication number: 20170242395
    Abstract: A detachable unit has a unit housing and a grip portion thereon. The detachable unit is insertable and removal along an insertion/removal trajectory formed inside the body of an image forming apparatus and forming a depression angle as seen from the removal direction. The grip portion has a pressed face facing the upstream side of the unit housing in its removal direction and substantially perpendicular to the insertion/removal trajectory, a first side extending along the lower-end edge of the pressed face, and a second side extending along the upper-end edge of the pressed face. No face extending on the upstream side of the unit housing in the removal direction connects to the first side, and a finger insertion portion into which a finger can be inserted from the side of the first side along the pressed face is formed in the first side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Takuya MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170242396
    Abstract: A process cartridge includes a photosensitive drum; a developing roller; a developer supplying roller, provided in contact with the developing roller; a driving force receiving portion provided at a shaft end of the supplying roller; a first driving force transmitting portion; a second driving force transmitting portion; flexible sheets provided adjacent to an engaging portion between the first portion and the second portion to intermittently contact the second portion with rotation of the second portion, wherein a rotational direction of the roller is opposite to that of the roller, and a peripheral speed of the roller is larger than that of the roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Hideki Maeshima, Kuniaki Hirukawa, Shuichi Gofuku, Yoshihiro Mitsui
  • Publication number: 20170242397
    Abstract: A blowing tube is provided and includes: a passage portion and plural restriction portions. The passage portion includes an inlet passage portion including a first passage space, a first bent passage portion including a second passage space, and a second bent passage portion including a third passage space. One of the restriction portions includes a plate-shaped blocking portion and an air passage portion disposed between one end of the blocking portion and an inner wall surface on an inner side of the second passage space of the first bent passage portion in the bent direction of the second bent passage portion. A bar-shaped member is provided in the third passage space and present in an isolated manner along a longitudinal direction of an opening of the air passage portion of the restriction portion. The air flowing out through the air passage portion collides against the bar-shaped member and diverges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi KUDO, Yasunori MOMOMURA, Yuki NAGAMORI
  • Publication number: 20170242398
    Abstract: Techniques to improve image quality in holography utilizing lenses made from materials with non-quantized anisotropic electromagnetic properties, such as birefringent materials, to advantageously split an incoming beam of light into two coincident beams with different focal lengths that interfere with one another and thus create holograms free of electro-optical or pixelated devices are disclosed for microscopy and other applications. The use of thin birefringent lenses and single crystal alpha-BBO lenses are introduced. Corresponding systems, methods and apparatuses are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventor: Gary BROOKER
  • Publication number: 20170242399
    Abstract: Timepiece wheel with play take-up, including a toothing, each tooth of which includes first and second half-teeth each including a part of the tooth profile, and movable with respect to each other against elastic return means, the wheel including, axially stacked, a first and a second half-wheel respectively carrying the first and second half-teeth and having limited rotational mobility with respect to each other, about the axis of this toothing, and against the elastic return means, the toothing of each half-wheel overhanging the other half-wheel, each half-wheel including hollows inside each of which is movable an opposite half-tooth, between two successive half-teeth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: Blancpain SA
    Inventor: Julien FEYER
  • Publication number: 20170242400
    Abstract: Timepiece display mechanism including a cam driven by a time base, and a pivoting lever including an elastically returned feeler member following the contour of the cam and a first rack meshing with a first angular orientation wheel which drives an indicator plate synchronously or via a differential mechanism, the indicator plate projecting radially with respect to a main axis and being parallel to or coplanar with the first wheel, the display mechanism includes a connecting rod articulated at a first end to a carriage slidably mounted on the indicator plate and carrying a retractable hand, a second end of the connecting rod being pivoted on a fixed pivot or on a movable pivot comprised in an elongation wheel set driven directly or indirectly by the lever.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: Blancpain SA
    Inventors: Mehdi DENDEN, Edmond CAPT
  • Publication number: 20170242401
    Abstract: A device for releasably sealing a port for a wearable electronic component includes a housing that seals an electronic component and includes a void for receiving the electronic component. The device may also include a cam disposed on a side surface of the housing having a proximal end pivotally engaged with the housing between a first position where a distal end of the cam is disposed adjacent to the housing and a second position where the distal end is disposed away from the housing. The cam may include a cam port that extends through a body of the cam. The device may further include a slider disposed on the side surface of the housing between the cam and the void, where the slider is slidably engaged with the housing between a sealed position and an open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Tyson WHITE, Joe BABCOCK, Nick EVERIST
  • Publication number: 20170242402
    Abstract: An external element of a timepiece including a frame made of a first material, the external element further including at least one light sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd
    Inventor: Nicolas FRANCOIS
  • Publication number: 20170242403
    Abstract: Watch with a timepiece movement, a resonator mechanism, including a magnetic escapement mechanism including an escape wheel set including a magnetized track, with a succession of areas according to a scrolling period in which its magnetic features are repeated, each area including an increasing magnetic field ramp followed by a magnetic field barrier with an increasing field and of higher field gradient that that of the ramp, the track includes a continuous, closed magnetic layer over the entire periphery of the escape wheel set, of constant thickness and variable width, whose geometry defines these magnetic field ramps and barriers, this escape wheel set cooperating with a sprung balance via a pivoting magnetic stop member comprising a pole piece arranged to cooperate alternately with an internal track and an external track of the magnetic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd
    Inventors: Gianni DI DOMENICO, Dominique LECHOT, Jerome FAVRE, Benoit LEGERET, Davide SARCHI
  • Publication number: 20170242404
    Abstract: Systems and methods for positionally stable magneto-optical trapping over temperature are provided. In certain embodiments, an atomic sensor may include at least one laser source configured to produce at least one laser; one or more optical components, wherein the one or more optical components direct the at least one laser; and a vacuum cell, wherein the one or more optical components direct the at least one laser into the vacuum cell, wherein the one or more optical components and the vacuum cell are bonded together and components within the atomic sensor are fabricated from materials having similar coefficients of thermal expansion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Chad Fertig, Bernard Fritz, Karl D. Nelson