Seiko Epson Corporation

Ken Ikuma

Yujiro Nomura

Kiyoshi Tsujino

Koji Akioka

Nozomu Inoue

Koichi Kamijo

Tomoe Aruga

Hiroshi Toyama

Ryuta Koizumi

Takeshi Sowa

Masahide Nakamura

Takashi Teshima

Satoru Miura

Akihiro Gomi

Hidehiro Takano

Mitsukazu Kurose

Satoshi Chiba

Toshiaki Yamagami

Hiroshi Kaiho

Fuminori Yano

Nobumasa Abe

Shinichi Kamoshida

Keiichi Taguchi

Atsunori Kitazawa

Hiroshi Nakazato

Kunihiro Kawada

Tadahiro Mizutani

Hiroshi Tanaka

Toru Fujita

Tsutomu Sasaki

Nobuhiro Miyakawa

Manabu Munakata

Noriaki Shimura

Teruyuki Inukai

Hayato Shirai

Yoichi Yamada

Yoshiro Koga

Shinji Yasukawa

Harunobu Komatsu

Kazuyoshi Ohashi

Soichi Yamazaki

Nobuyuki Mizushima

Hidenori Kin

Toru Tanjo

Atsushi Imamura

Tsutomu Teraoka

Tomoyuki Shiiya

Shinichi Tanaka

Kenji Yamaguchi

Keiichi Inoue

Yoshiki Nakamura

Katsumi Okamoto

Masaru Kobashi

Toshifumi Sakai

Yoshihiro Ueno

Motomu Hayakawa

Hidetsugu Shimura

Takashi Hama

Nobutaka Suzuki

Yuki Oguchi

Ken Yoshizuka

Kenjiro Yoshioka

Kuniaki Tanaka

Katsunori Ono

Masaaki Sakata

Koji Kitazawa

Masanori Nakata

Kazuma Miyazawa

Masahiro Fukazawa

Isao Inaba

Toshiyuki Ishibashi

Masahiro Oki

Takatoshi Sugita

Koji Yanagisawa

Koichi Ishii

Tomotake Hiraga

Takeharu Toguchi

Yasumasa Ishihara

Sinichi Kamoshida

Mitsuru Takei

Tatsuya Smimoda

Kiyoshi Shiohara

Takatomo Shinohara

Etsuko Ito

Shunichiro Yamanaka

An operation panel accepts a selection instruction to select an icon and an edit instruction to edit the icon selected by the selection instruction when an edit screen is displayed, a display control section selects two or more of the icons as a selection icon group when the operation panel accepts the selection instruction for the two or more icons, and the display control section edits the selection icon group when the operation panel accepts the edit instruction for the selection icon group.

Multifunction device, control method of multifunction device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing control program

A plurality of icons include a first icon set to a first setting by a hide instruction and a second icon set to a second setting by a hide instruction, and when an edit screen is displayed on an operation panel, the plurality of icons have different display modes between the first icon displayed on the edit screen and the second icon displayed on the edit screen.

Multifunction device, display control method of multifunction device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing display control program

When an operation panel accepts a movement instruction to move a designated first icon among a plurality of icons from a first position to a second position on an edit screen, the first icon is moved to the second position, and a size of the first icon is changed with movement based on an inter-icon distance between the first icon after the movement and a second icon adjacent to the first icon after the movement.

A paper recycling device includes a dry type defibrator, a first transport unit, a classifier unit, a second transport unit a paper forming unit and a control unit. The dry type defibrator unit is configured to defibrate first paper into defibrated material. The first transport unit is configured to transport the defibrated material after being defibrated by the dry type defibrator unit. The classifier unit is configured to classify by an air flow classification the defibrated material after being transported by the first transport unit. The second transport unit is configured to transport the defibrated material after being classified by the classifier unit. The paper forming unit is configured to for second paper with the defibrated material after being transported by the second transport unit. The control unit is configured to control volume of the first paper supplied to the dry type defibrator unit.

Paper recycling device and paper recycling method

A paper recycling device includes a dry type defibrator, a first transport unit, a classifier unit, a second transport unit a paper forming unit and a control unit. The dry type defibrator unit is configured to defibrate first paper into defibrated material. The first transport unit is configured to transport the defibrated material after being defibrated by the dry type defibrator unit. The classifier unit is configured to deink by an air flow classification the defibrated material after being transported by the first transport unit. The second transport unit is configured to transport the defibrated material after being deinked by the classifier unit. The paper forming unit is configured to for second paper with the defibrated material after being transported by the second transport unit. The control unit is configured to control volume of the first paper supplied to the dry type defibrator unit.

To provide a paper recycling device capable of recycling paper of increased whiteness level that can be widely used for applications other than paper for newspapers, the paper recycling device of the present invention has a dry type defibrator for crushing and defibrating paper, a first transport pipe for transporting defibrated material that was defibrated by the dry type defibrator, a cyclone for air classifying and deinking the defibrated material transported by the first transport pipe, a second transport pipe for transporting the defibrated material that was deinked by the cyclone, and a paper forming machine for forming paper with the defibrated material transported by the second transport pipe.

Paper recycling system and paper recycling method

An image-forming apparatus includes a transfer roller having a recessed portion in a circumferential surface; a driving portion for rotatably driving the transfer roller; an image carrier belt for carrying an image; a tension roller around which the image carrier belt is wound for making contact with the transfer roller interposed by the image carrier belt; a biasing portion for biasing the tension roller towards the transfer roller; and a position-regulating portion that, when the transfer roller rotates and the transfer roller and the image carrier belt make contact, causes a position to be maintained at which the image carrier belt wound around the tension roller intersects a virtual circumferential surface that is an extension of the circumferential surface of the transfer roller into the recessed portion.

Image-forming apparatus and image forming method for regulating portion of tension roller

An image forming method includes rotating a transfer roller which forms a transfer nip by coming in contact with a transfer belt and has a concaved portion wider than the transfer nip in a rotation direction, such that the concaved portion comes to a position of facing the transfer belt, stopping rotation of the transfer roller at a position where the transfer belt faces the concaved portion of the transfer roller and the transfer belt and the transfer roller are spaced apart from each other, moving the transfer belt while the transfer roller is stopped and transferring an image formed on an image carrier to the transfer belt, and detecting the transferred image by a detection portion.

Image forming method and image forming device for detecting transferred image transferred to transfer belt

An image-forming device includes an image carrier belt, a roller, a transfer material transporting member, and a transfer roller. The image carrier belt carries an image. The transfer material transporting member transports a transfer material. The transfer roller transfers the image to the transfer material at a nip. The transfer roller includes a concaved portion formed on a peripheral surface thereof and a transfer material gripping portion that grips the transfer material in the concaved portion. The transfer roller is in contact with the roller via the image carrier belt. A first interaxial distance between a rotation axis of the transfer roller and a rotation axis of the roller as the transfer material is gripped is larger than a second interaxial distance between the rotation axis of the transfer roller and the rotation axis of the roller as the image is being transferred onto the transfer material at the nip.

Image-forming device and image-forming method

A liquid developer contains a liquid insulator formed of a liquid hydrocarbon, toner particles formed by chemically modifying surfaces of mother toner particles formed of a material containing a rosin-based resin and a polyester resin with a polyalkyleneimine, and a metal soap dissolved in the liquid insulator.

Liquid developer and image-forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a latent image carrier on which a latent image is formed, a developer carrier being in contact with the latent image carrier and configured to develop the latent image by using a liquid developer that contains toner and a carrier liquid, an image carrier belt being in contact with the latent image carrier, where the latent image carrier is configured to transfer the latent image onto an area of the image carrier belt, a transfer roller including a concave section on a circumferential surface thereof and a sheet member being configured on a part of the circumferential surface other than where the concave section is wherein the transfer roller is configured to transfer the latent image onto a transfer material, and a control unit being configured to control the area of the image carrier belt being in contact with the sheet member via the transfer material.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method for bringing transfer material held at inner face

An exposure head includes a light emitting element and a imaging optical system having a first region and a second region and contrived such that a slope of a long dimension of a spot diagram formed by light emitted from the light emitting element that passes through the first region is different from a slope of a long dimension of a spot diagram formed by light emitted from the light emitting element that passes through the second region.

Exposure head and image forming apparatus with light emitting element emitting light forming first and second diagrams having angle

An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a transfer roller, a transfer roller position detector and a controller. The transfer roller includes a concaved portion formed on a circumferential surface thereof with the concaved portion having a width in the circumferential direction larger than a width of a transfer nip formation area formed between the image carrier and the transfer roller in the circumferential direction. The transfer roller includes an elastic member disposed on the circumferential surface thereof. The transfer roller position detector is configured and arranged to detect a rotational position of the transfer roller. The controller is configured to stop rotation of the transfer roller in a state in which the concaved portion is located at the transfer nip formation area on the basis of the rotational position of the transfer roller.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

An exposure head includes: at least one light emitting element; an imaging optical system adapted to image light from the light emitting element; at least one reference element disposed to the light emitting element; and a control section adapted to control light emission of the light emitting element, and to put off the reference element in a latent image forming operation, wherein the control section obtains degree of deterioration of the light emitting element based on an intensity of light emitted by the light emitting element at timing other than timing when the latent image formation operation is executed and an intensity of light emitted by the reference element at the timing other than the timing when the latent image formation operation is executed, and controls light intensity of the light emitting element in the latent image forming operation based on the degree of deterioration.

Exposure head, image forming apparatus, and control method of exposure head

A transfer apparatus includes a transfer belt being configured to carry an image, a transfer roller having an elastic layer and being configured to transfer the image from the transfer belt onto a transfer material, and a backup roller being configured to have pressure against the transfer roller with the transfer belt therebetween in order to form a transfer nip portion. The transfer nip portion includes a pressure-contact nip and a contact nip. A length of the contact nip is smaller than half a length of the pressure-contact nip in the rotational direction of the transfer roller.

Transfer apparatus and image forming apparatus

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Ken Ikuma