Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Kazunari Komatsuzaki

Satoshi Tatsuura

Yutaka Nogami

Kazutoshi Yatsuda

Keitaro Mori

Taichi Yamada

Roshan Thapliya

Nobuhiro Katsuta

Shiro Suzuki

Ryota Mizutani

Yasushi Kawahata

A detection apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a detector. The acquisition unit acquires temperatures respectively corresponding to multiple parts of a subject identified from a visible image from a temperature image in which the temperatures of the parts of the subject are visualized. The detector detects a part not included in a temperature range preset for each of the parts, the part being included in the multiple parts of the subject whose temperatures are acquired by the acquisition unit.

Detection apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium

A robot control system includes: plural robots that are disposed in a region; a generating unit that divides the region into plural small regions and generates disposition position information for specifying disposition positions of each of the plural robots in the region based on a value indicating a use possibility of a robot in each small regions; and a disposition unit that disposes the plural robots in the region in accordance with the disposition position information generated by the generating unit.

Robot control system and recording medium

A robot control system includes: plural robots; a receiving unit that receives a robot dispatch request from a user; a sensor that detects a state of the user who performs the robot dispatch request; and a controller that determines priority on the robot dispatch request based on the state of the user detected by the sensor, selects, in a case where plural robot dispatch requests are received, a robot to be dispatched among the plural robots in order of the priority on the robot dispatch requests, and dispatches the robot.

An image forming apparatus includes an image holding member, a first charging unit that charges a surface of the image holding member, a latent image forming unit that forms an electrostatic latent image on a charged surface of the image holding member, a second charging unit that charges a toner contained in a liquid developer, a developing unit that accommodates the liquid developer and develops the electrostatic latent image by using the liquid developer containing the toner charged by the second charging unit to form a toner image, a transfer unit that transfers the toner image to a recording medium, and a fixing unit that fixes the toner image to the recording medium. The liquid developer includes a toner in which a compound having a charge-accepting functional group has been bonded to a surface of toner particles, an ionization-controlling agent that ionizes the charge-accepting functional group, and a carrier liquid.

Liquid developer, method for controlling charging properties of toner, image forming apparatus, image forming method, process cartridge, and liquid developer cartridge

A liquid developer includes a toner in which a compound having a charge-accepting functional group has been bonded to a surface of toner particles, and a carrier liquid which makes a charge density of a surface of the toner become 1 &#x3bc;C/mor less when the toner is dispersed in the carrier liquid.

Provided is a recovery device including a recovery mechanism that recovers a liquid developer from a holding member which revolves while holding the liquid developer, the liquid developer being not delivered from the holding member to a delivery target member and remains on the holding member, a reception section that receives the liquid developer which the recovery mechanism recovers, an addition member that adds a diluent, which reduces a toner concentration of the liquid developer, to the liquid developer that the reception section receives, a porous section through which the liquid developer passes, and a transport member that moves to transport the liquid developer which the reception section receives to the porous section, and causes the liquid developer to pass through the porous section.

Recovery device and image forming apparatus for recovering liquid developer and passing the liquid developer through a porous section

Provided is a toner adjusting mechanism, including a storage section in which a liquid developer is stored, a supply section that causes the liquid developer which is stored in the storage section to flow at a predetermined flow velocity to supply the liquid developer to a developer tank, a circulating section that causes the liquid developer which is discharged from the storage section to flow and circulate at a flow velocity faster than the flow velocity of the liquid developer which flows in the supply section, a detecting section that detects a toner concentration of the liquid developer which flows in the circulating section, and an addition section that adds an adjustment agent which adjusts the toner concentration of the liquid developer to the liquid developer which is stored in the storage section.

Toner adjusting mechanism and image forming apparatus

Provided is a liquid developer supply device including plural accommodation tubs that respectively accommodate a liquid developer, a high concentration liquid developer, a dilution liquid and a standard concentration liquid developer, a first detection section that detects a solid component concentration of the liquid developer, and an amount of the liquid developer that is accommodated in the accommodation tubs, and a control section that controls the solid component concentration of the liquid developer to within the concentration range by supplying at least one of the high concentration liquid developer and the dilution liquid to an accommodation tub in which the liquid developer is accommodated based on detection results that are detected by the first detection section, and controls the amount of the liquid developer to greater than or equal to a predetermined amount by supplying the standard concentration liquid developer.

Liquid developer supply device and image forming apparatus

Provided is an image forming apparatus including a first image forming unit that forms a first image on a front surface of a transported medium with a developer including toners and non-volatile oils, a removing unit that heats non-volatile oils on the front surface of the medium to remove the oils, a second image forming unit that forms a second image on a back surface of the medium with a developer including toners and non-volatile oils, a removing section that heats non-volatile oils on the back surface of the medium to remove the oils, and a fixing unit that fixes the first image and the second image on the front surface and the back surface of the medium.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a charging unit, an electrostatic latent image forming unit, a developing unit that contains a liquid developer containing a toner and a carrier solution and that develops an electrostatic latent image with the liquid developer to form a toner image on the surface of the image carrier, a transfer unit that transfers the toner image onto a recording medium, and a fixing unit that includes at least one pair of first and second rotating members that form a nip between the first and second rotating members. The following condition (A) is satisfied: the amount of the carrier solution on the surface of the toner image is about 0.7 g/mor less during passing of the recording medium through the nip of the most-downstream pair of the at least one rotating-member pair in the leading direction of the recording medium.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kazunari Komatsuzaki