Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Minolta Company, Ltd.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Konica-minolta Holdings, Inc.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Agency of Industrial Science and Technology

Ns Solutions Corporation

Eiichi Yoshida

Sadaaki Sakamoto

Yoshikazu Ikenoue

Shoji Imaizumi

Masaaki Saka

Hiroshi Iwamoto

Eiichiro Kawasaki

Takeshi Morikawa

Masahiko Nakamura

Kenichi Komaba

Kaori Soeda

Kenichi Onaka

Ito Koga

Izumi Mukoyama

Susumu Sudo

Kazuhiro Tomiyasu

Masao Hosono

Tomoko Mine

Taketoshi Yamahata

Tomoyuki Atsumi

Takayuki Suzuki

Tomokazu Kato

Takuya Okada

Hideki Hino

Takatsugu Kuno

Hiroyasu Ito

Toshimi Shinchi

Hiroshi Yamazaki

Ken Ohmura

Asao Matsushima

Akio Nakajima

Yoichi Kawabuchi

Hiroshi Sugiura

Shoko Haba

Akira Ohira

Masahiro Anno

Atsushi Tomita

Kenichi Sawada

Takeshi Hibino

Tomoko Maruyama

Taisuke Akahori

Hiroharu Tanaka

Yoshiyuki Tamai

Nobuo Kamei

Katsuhiko Akita

Minako Kobayashi

Kazuya Anezaki

Yasuo Kurachi

Takehisa Yamaguchi

Keiji Nakatani

Toshihisa Motosugi

Shin Ohba

Toshiyuki Yamashita

Tsumoru Matsuura

Shiori Tsugawa

Sumiko Nishimura

Yasuhiro Yamauchi

Koji Naito

Masahiro Imamura

Kimie Mishima

Syuji Maruta

Motomi Takemoto

Junji Ujihara

Hiroshi Sumiyama

Tetsuo Sano

Motomi Kawamura

Kenichi Matsumoto

Ryo Nakayama

Munetaka Fujita

Katsunori Suzuki

Daisuke Ikeda

Kotaro Takebe

Shigekatsu Yoshimura

Tomoko c/o Konica Minolta Business Technologies Inc Mine

Kenichi c/o Konica Minolta Business Technologies Inc Onaka

The present invention includes a determiner configured to determine whether to photograph a packing style image of an article as a work target in a first warehouse work or not, as an image used in a second warehouse work performed after the first warehouse work.

System, information processing device, information processing method, program, and recording medium

Provided is an intermediate transfer belt for an electrophotographic image forming apparatus including conductor-coated particles in which ferroelectric particles are coated with a conductor.

Intermediate transfer belt and electrophotographic image forming apparatus provided with same

Disclosed is an intermediate transfer belt used for an electrophotographic image-forming apparatus, wherein the intermediate transfer belt contains a substrate layer and a surface layer; the intermediate transfer belt has a relative dielectric constant of 15 or more, and a volume resistivity at an applied voltage of 100 V in the range of 1.0&#xd7;10to 9.0&#xd7;10&#x3a9;&#xb7;cm under an environment of temperature of 23&#xb0; C. and humidity of 50% RH; and the surface layer has a relative dielectric constant of 6 or less.

Intermediate transfer belt and image-forming apparatus

Provided is an intermediate transfer material used for an electrophotographic image-forming apparatus in which a toner image held on an electrostatic latent image carrier is primarily transferred to an intermediate transfer material, and then, the primarily transferred toner image is transferred from the intermediate transfer material to a transfer material through a secondary transfer device, wherein the intermediate transfer material has a substrate layer and an elastic layer; and the elastic layer contains a structure composed of a rubber having a double bond (C) and a rubber having no double bond (C) being bonded with each other through a urethane bond.

Intermediate transfer material, production method of the same, and electrophotographic image-forming apparatus

A resistance heating element contains a heat-resistant resin and conductive stainless steel fiber coated with a film, and satisfies the following expression (1): 1&#x2264;(r1/r0)&#x2264;1.03, where rrepresents the initial resistance value of the resistance heating element, and rrepresents the resistance value of the resistance heating element after allowed to stand at 30&#xb0; C. and a relative humidity of 80% for one week.

Resistance heating element, fixing device, and image forming apparatus

The intermediate transferring belt is to be mounted in an electrophotographic image-forming apparatus. The intermediate transferring belt includes the following, in sequence, a substrate; an elastic layer; and a surface layer. The surface layer has an elongation of 5% or more and a stress of 5MPa or more at an elastic limit determined by a stress-strain curve obtained according to JIS K7161.

Intermediate transferring belt and image-forming apparatus

An information converter includes an acquisition part for acquiring execution information of a specific function mode, the specific function mode being included in customized information which is operation setting information customized for a specific user and not being installed in a specific image forming apparatus; and a converter for dividing an operation to be executed in the specific function mode into a plurality of jobs which can be executed in the specific image forming apparatus and converting the execution information of the specific function mode into converted execution information described by using combination of the plurality of jobs.

Image forming system, image forming apparatus, information converter, server, and computer-readable recording medium

Provided is an intermediate transfer member used in an electrophotographic image forming apparatus having a unit of primary-transferring a toner image carried on an electrostatic latent image carrier to an intermediate transfer member, and then secondary-transferring the primary-transferred toner image onto a transfer material from the intermediate transfer member, wherein a surface of the intermediate transfer member has a hardness in the range of 150 to 350 MPa, and an elastic modulus in the range of 200 to 600 MPa, which are measured by a nano indentation method, and also has a hardness of 0.5 to 2.0 MPa specified in terms of universal hardness.

Intermediate transfer member and electrophotographic image forming apparatus using the same

An intermediate transfer belt includes a base layer, an elastic layer, and a surface layer. The elastic layer is composed of an elastomer composition containing an elastomer and metal oxide particles. At least a portion of a surface of the metal oxide particles is positioned at a surface of the elastic layer. At least the portion is coupling-treated with a metal coupling agent. A radical polymerizable functional group of the metal coupling agent is bonded to a radical polymerizable compound composing the surface layer via radical polymerization.

Intermediate transferrer and image forming apparatus

An image processing apparatus comprises: a display that displays a first screen including one or more than one first key for setting a mode to execute a function of the apparatus, and then, if one of the first keys is pressed, displays a second screen including one or more than one second key, which is a lower-class screen under the pressed first key; and a customizing portion that hides at least one of the first and the second keys on the first screen, according to a user operation, and wherein if a user changes to non-display, the setting of at least one of the first keys on the first screen, while there exists a second key preliminarily prohibited from being hidden, on the second screen that is a lower-class screen under the first key to be hidden according to the changed setting, the customizing portion doesn't hide the first key.

Image processing apparatus, method of displaying operation mode keys for image processing apparatus, and recording medium

An intermediate transferring belt and an image-forming apparatus are shown. The intermediate transferring belt is to be mounted in an electrophotographic image-forming apparatus. The intermediate transferring belt includes the following, in sequence, a substrate; an elastic layer; and a surface layer. The surface layer includes an acrylic resin including a copolymer of a urethane acrylate and one or more acrylates selected from the group consisting of a monofunctional acrylate having an alicyclic structure and a monofunctional acrylate having a heterocyclic structure.

To provide an intermediate transfer belt having a high ability to transfer images to recording media with irregular surface, and an image forming apparatus including the intermediate transfer belt. The intermediate transfer belt includes a base layer and an elastic layer formed on the base layer, the elastic layer being formed of a rubber composition, wherein the intermediate transfer belt satisfies a specific relational expression.

Intermediate transfer belt with elastic layer formed on base layer and image forming apparatus including same

An endless heat-generation beltincludes a heat-generation layerand a pair of metal electrodesand. The heat-generation layeris composed of an electroconductive resin composition and the heat-generation layercan be heated by supplying electricity. The metal electrodeis bonded to the heat-generation layerwith an electroconductive adhesive. The electroconductive adhesivecontains an adhesive matrix and an electroconductive filler. The adhesive matrix is a modified silicone resin or an epoxy resin. The heat-generation belthas excellent heat resistance, durability, and resistance stability, and it can be used for a fixing device of an image forming apparatus.

Heat-generation belt, fixing device, and image forming apparatus

An image forming system comprises a calling part for calling up customized information which is operation setting information customized for a specific user, a converter for dividing an operation to be executed in a specific function mode which is installed in a first image forming apparatus and not installed in a second image forming apparatus into a plurality of jobs and changing execution information of the specific function mode to converted execution information described by using combination of pieces of execution information on the plurality of jobs when the specific function mode is included in the customized information, and a controller for executing an operation to implement the same function as that of the specific function mode in the second image forming apparatus by using the converted execution information.

An image forming apparatus that prints and edits a document includes a user identification portion, a print management portion that records print management information indicating a user who performs abort operation of printing, an edit management portion that records edit management information, a determination portion that determines, based on the print management information, whether or not the user is a print suspended operator who has performed the abort operation previously, a page extraction portion that, when the print suspended operator performs reprinting operation for giving instructions to print the document that has been updated, extracts pages of the document which were printed successfully when printing of the document was suspended and have been updated thereafter, and a print controller that controls the image forming apparatus such that the image forming apparatus prints at least unprinted pages of the document and the pages extracted by the page extraction portion.

Image forming apparatus, computer-readable storage medium for computer program, and control method thereof

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