Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Minolta Company, Ltd.

Minolta Camera Co., Ltd.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Minolta Camera Corporation

Minolta Camera Co. Kabushiki Kaisha

Masazumi Ito

Kimihiko Higashio

Kadotaro Nishimori

Syuzi Maruta

Kenji Shibazaki

Tomoji Murata

Tadashi Ohira

Yutaka Irie

Yoshiaki Takano

Hiroyuki Ideyama

Minoru Nakamura

Yoshihiko Hatta

Tsugihito Yoshiyama

Tadafumi Shimizu

Masaaki Oyabu

Toshiyuki Yamashita

Yoshikazu Ikenoue

Yoshiaki Hata

Yoichi Kawabuchi

Tomokazu Kato

Yoshifumi Shibata

Takashi Honda

Manabu Kamitamari

Atsushi Tomita

Keiji Kusumoto

Kazuhiro Araki

Kenzo Nagata

Takashi Noda

Syuji Maruta

Atsushi Kawai

Shinichi Yabuki

Yasuhiro Ishihara

Tsuneo Kitagawa

Ikunori Yamaguchi

Masao Kondo

Akio Kato

Kunio Furukawa

Hiroyuki Hanamoto

Toshiya Furubayashi

Shigeki Nozawa

Masaru Komura

Yoshihiro Horie

Shigeru Sawada

Satoshi Hasegawa

Takahiro Doi

Naohiro Yonezu

Akihito Takada

Toshikazu Higashi

Kadotari Nishimori

Masahiro Kamiya

Junichi Masuda

Naoyoshi Kinoshita

Masatoshi Hitaka

Hiroaki Hamano

Sumiaki Hirata

Hideo Ito

Natsuyo Higashi

Shigeo Ogino

Masaru Imaizumi

Munehiro Natsume

Yoshihiro Hanada

Yoshiki Nakazawa

Yasuyuki Matsuuchi

Yoshinori Maruyama

Hirokazu Higashiuchi

Yoshihiko Yasue

Yoichi Utsunomiya

Toru Kasamatsu

In order to properly count the number of sheets printed which serves as the basis on which a charge is calculated, an MFP that acts as a designated printer includes a job accepting portion to accept a print job, a job executing portion to carry out printing based on the print job, a requesting portion to, when the job executing portion is not available for executing the print job, transmit an alternative instruction including the print job to an alternative printer, and an adding portion to add the number of alternative sheets printed by the alternative printer based on the print job included in the alternative instruction to the number of sheets printed by the job executing portion.

Image forming apparatus provided with function to calculate charge based on the number of sheets printed, print system including image forming apparatus, method for counting the number of sheets printed executed by image forming apparatus, and program for counting the number of sheets printed executed by image forming apparatus

If image stabilization becomes necessary while an MFP is executing a print job received from a user, the MFP performs the image stabilization while emitting an operation sound if the user has not moved away from the MFP. Also, if the user has moved away from the MFP, the MFP stops the print job and logs the user out.

Image forming apparatus and image forming system

A facsimile apparatus includes one or a plurality of connecting portions configured to connect an external storage, a communication portion having a plurality of different facsimile lines, a line specifying portion configured to specify a facsimile line which received data, a detecting portion configured to detect that an external storage is connected to the connecting portion, and a control portion configured to store the data received by a predetermined facsimile line in an external storage connected to the connecting portion in cases where a facsimile line specified by the line specifying portion is a predetermined line and a connection of the external storage is detected by the detecting portion.

Facsimile apparatus, and received-data processing method for use in said facsimile apparatus

Provides is an image forming system, comprising an image forming device and an information processing device connected to the image forming device, further comprising a function-detecting unit detecting that a second function is added to the image forming device having a first function, and a notification unit notifying the user using the first function of the fact that the second function is added when addition thereof is detected by the function-detecting unit.

Image forming system, image forming device and information processing device

The image forming apparatus includes: an image former which, upon receiving a first instruction, feeds a sheet and performs an image forming operation to form an image on the sheet; a fixing part which (i) secures a fixing nip by bringing outer circumferential surfaces of first and second rotating bodies into contact with each other, (ii) upon receiving a second instruction, heats the first and second rotating bodies until a temperature thereof reaches a target temperature, and (iii) thermally fixes the image onto the sheet passing through the fixing nip; and a determiner which determines output timings of the first and second instructions such that a timing at which a leading end, in a sheet convey direction, of the image formed on the sheet reaches the fixing nip and a timing at which the temperature of the first and second rotating bodies reaches the target temperature match each other.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

An image forming apparatus includes a job execution portion, a connecting portion for detachably connecting an external storage, a detection portion for detecting connection to the connecting portion of the external storage, a stored information reading portion for reading stored information of the external storage based on connection detection of the external storage by the detection portion, an internal storage portion for storing the read stored information, and a job administration portion for making the job execution portion execute a job about the stored information stored in the internal storage portion and for registering the job about the stored information as a processing wait job when the job execution portion is executing another job.

Image forming apparatus, job execution apparatus, and job execution method

A fixing member having an outer peripheral surface brought in pressure contact with a sheet, an induction coil along the member, and a high frequency power source section that heats the heat generating layer of the fixing member by supplying an alternating current to the induction coil. A magnetic flux regulating section that restricts the generation of heat in a specified region of the fixing member in the widthwise direction of the sheet is provided. Image regions occupied by the image to be fixed are detected in the widthwise direction of the sheet. Control of specifying the region in which the generation of heat should be restricted for the magnetic flux regulating section is executed so that only regions corresponding to the image regions of the fixing member are substantially heated in the widthwise direction of the sheet, sheet-by-sheet according to the result of detection.

Image forming apparatus and electromagnetic induction heating type fixing device having magnetic flux regulating section

A facsimile machine comprises a connection for connecting an external storage device, a detection unit for detecting whether or not the external storage device is connected to said connection, a switching unit that switches confidential fax transmitting function to enable if the external storage device is connected to the connection and switching the confidential fax transmitting function to disable if it is not connected, a display unit that displays names of files of image data that can be transmitted by facsimile from the image data stored in the external storage device connected to the connection, a file selection unit that selects based on a user's instruction a file to be transmitted, from the displayed files, and a transmission unit that transmits the image data of the selected file by the confidential fax transmitting function.

Facsimile machine, method of transmitting a facsimile and method of receiving the same

A stored information processing device for external storages, comprises a plurality of connecting portions for connecting a plurality of external storages in a detachable manner, a stored information reading portion capable of reading stored information of the external storage connected to the connecting portion, a display portion capable of displaying the stored information of the external storage read by the stored information reading portion, a detection portion for detecting a connection and/or disconnection of the external storage with respect to any one of the connecting portions of the external storage, a discrimination portion for discriminating whether, when a connection and/or disconnection of the first external storage with respect to any one of the connecting portions, a second external storage is connected to the other connecting portion, and a controller for determining whether the stored information of the first and/or second external storage is displayed on the display portion depending on a discrimination result.

Stored information processing device for external storages, and stored information processing method

Provided is an image data transmitter in which, in the event of transmission of the same image data to multiple recipients, the image data with added supplementary information different for each of the multiple recipients can be transmitted through easy operation. Further provided is an image data communication system using the image data transmitter. An image of a document is read out, and a destination of the image is set. Multiple destinations can be set. Then, selection is performed whether or not to input supplementary information. When performing input processing, a destination to which the supplementary information is to be transmitted is selected from the multiple destinations. Subsequently, the supplementary information for the destination is input, and the supplementary information is correlated with the destination. Additionally, the image data and the supplementary information are combined. Then, composite data for the destination is transmitted to the destination.

Image data transmitter and image data communication system

An image forming apparatus includes an image creation device loaded in the image forming apparatus in a replaceable manner, an openable and closable cover to be opened and closed when the image creation device is to be replaced with a new one, a new/old discrimination portion that discriminates whether the image creation device is new or old, an image stabilization processing portion that executes image stabilization processing for old image creation devices to maintain image quality with respect to old image creation devices and executes image stabilization processing for brand-new image creation devices including a part of the image stabilization processing for old image creation devices as common-processing to maintain image quality with respect to brand-new image creation devices, and a controller. The controller makes the new/old discrimination portion initiate new/old discrimination processing at the time of turning on power supply and/or closing the openable and closable cover, makes the image stabilization processing initiate common-processing common to image stabilization processing for old image creation devices and that for brand-new image creation devices, and makes the image stabilization processing initiate image stabilization processing peculiar to brand-new image creation devices or old image creation devices depending on a discrimination result of the new/old discrimination portion after completion of the common-processing.

Image forming apparatus and image stabilization processing method for image forming device in said image forming apparatus

A parts-management system includes a terminal apparatus and a management apparatus for communicating with the terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus includes a first memory which stores identification information of each part used in the terminal apparatus and an operation value corresponding to an operation of each part in a mutually related manner, a controller which performs a predetermined operation processing corresponding to an operation of each part and updates the operation value stored in the memory when the part operates, a first transmitter which transmits the identification information of each part and an operation value corresponding to the identification information to the management apparatus, and a second transmitter which transmits a request signal for requesting a transmission of an operation value for at least one part. The management apparatus includes a second memory which stores the identification information of each part and the operation value each sent by the first transmitter in a mutually related manner, and a third transmitter which transmits the identification information and the operation value each stored in the second memory to the terminal apparatus in response to the request signal.

Parts-management system, method of managing parts and parts-management apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a cartridge loading portion removably loaded with a first cartridge containing therein a consumable but carrying no memory storing information on the consumable, or with a second cartridge containing therein the consumable and carrying a memory storing information on the consumable; a controller; and a first memory storing the information on the consumable contained in the first cartridge, and is characterized in that the controller includes: a first consumption calculating/storing portion operating when the first cartridge is loaded in the cartridge loading portion, calculating a consumption of the consumable in the first cartridge and storing the calculation result in the first memory; and a second consumption calculating/storing portion for calculating a consumable consumption of the second cartridge and for storing the calculation result in the memory installed in the second cartridge.

Image forming apparatus and control method for image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an input portion to input data, an image forming portion to form a latent image on an image carrying member by irradiating a laser beam onto a reflecting member rotatably driven by a motor and irradiating light reflected by the reflecting member onto the image carrying member, and to enable a pre-rotation of the reflecting member by driving the motor prior to irradiation of the laser beam, and a control portion to cause a pre-rotation of the reflecting member when a first function using the image forming portion for the data inputted from the input portion is selected, and to prohibit the pre-rotation of the reflecting member when a second function to store the data inputted from the input portion in a storing medium or to transmit the data to an external terminal apparatus without using the image forming portion is selected.

Image forming apparatus and method for controlling the pre-rotation of a reflecting member

A central management apparatus determines whether or not data transmitted to the central management apparatus at the fixed time from a device management unit has arrived within the allowable time after the fixed time. When data have not arrived, it is determined that that device is a no reception device. When a plurality of devices are managed via connection to device management units using different communication methods, different allowable time are used for no reception determination in accordance with the communication method of the device management unit.

Central management apparatus and management system

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Osaka, Japan

Masazumi Ito