Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Mitsuhiro Matsumoto

Yasuhiro Uehara

Keiji Tomizawa

Kosuke Yamada

Masaki Oikawa

Ken Tsuchii

Tetsuro Kodera

Mineo Kaneko

Takayuki Yamashita

Toru Yamane

Yoshiki Shimodaira

Masato Yamashita

Shuichi Ide

Kansui Takino

Kazuyoshi Ito

Mikio Saiki

Naozumi Nabeshima

Hideaki Ohara

Kunihiko Sato

Yuki Nagamori

Keitaro Mori

Nobuyoshi Komatsu

Hiromi Nagai

Hiroki Murakami

Junji Okada

Atsumi Kurita

Yutaka Kiuchi

Masayo Higashimura

Tadashi Suto

Junichi Ozawa

Kimiyuki Kawakami

Shuichi Murakami

Aya Kakishima

Osamu Handa

Junpei Amano

Yuki Yokoyama

Tomokazu Kurita

Yoshio Shoji

Shigeo Ohno

Ryota Kubo

Hajime Aikyo

Shigeru Tanaka

Yusuke Kitagawa

Toshiyuki Miyata

Kenji Sawai

Tomoyuki Ito

Yoshiya Imoto

Yuichi Fukuda

Norio Ogawahara

Mitsuo Yamamoto

Takayuki Ukawa

Hideki Kuge

Tsutomu Sugimoto

Taketoshi Higashi

Takahito Chiba

Tokuya Sakamoto

Shigeki Washino

Satoshi Hasebe

Masato Serizawa

Hiroyoshi Inoue

Masayuki Kono

Hideaki Ohike

A fixing device includes: a holding part that extends in a width direction of a recording medium being transported and that holds the recording medium; a pair of circulating parts that are attached to both ends of the holding part and that circulate to transport the recording medium; and a heating member that heats the recording medium in a non-contact manner and that is located in a space between the pair of circulating parts in the width direction.

Fixing device and image forming apparatus

A fixing device includes: a first roller on which an elastic layer is formed; and a second roller that forms a clamping portion at which a recording medium is clamped between the first roller and the second roller, a groove extending in an axial direction being formed in an outer peripheral surface of the second roller, and the second roller not including an elastic layer.

A recording medium transport device includes: a circulating member that forms a part of a transport path for transporting a recording medium; a holding member that is fixed to the circulating member and thereby circulates and holds a front end portion of the recording medium; plural transport cylinders around which the circulating member is suspended and having a recessed part in which the holding member is stored; and a selection part that selects any one of the plural transport cylinders. A mode for stopping the selected one of the plural transport cylinders so that the recessed part of the selected one of the plural transport cylinders is located at a maintenance position is prepared.

Recording medium transport device and image forming apparatus

A transportation device includes a first transporter, a second transporter movable between a contact position and a separate position toward and away from the first transporter to hold a to-be-transported object between the second transporter and the first transporter in the contact position, and a transportation unit that transports the to-be-transported object to a nip area where the first transporter and the second transporter hold the to-be-transported object therebetween while the second transporter is located in the separate position. The second transporter moves from the separate position to the contact position to hold the to-be-transported object transported to the nip area by the transportation unit between the second transporter and the first transporter to transport the to-be-transported object.

Transportation device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus

A transport device includes: a first transport body; a second transport body that is movable between a contact position and a separate position with respect to the first transport body and that nips a transported material with the first transport body at the contact position; and a transport section that includes a holder to hold a leading end portion of the transported material and that transports the transported material toward a nip region where the first transport body and the second transport body nip the transported material in a state in which the second transport body is located at the separate position. After holding of the leading end portion by the holder for the transported material transported by the transport section has been released, the second transport body nips the transported material with the first transport body and transports the transported material.

Transport device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus

A heating device includes: a heating unit configured to heat a transported material being transported in a transport direction in a non-contact manner with respect to the transported material; and a facing portion that is disposed on a side opposite to the heating unit with respect to the transported material and faces the heating unit in a facing direction intersecting the transport direction, wherein a length of the heating unit in the transport direction is longer than a length of the facing portion in the transport direction, or a length of the heating unit in an intersecting direction intersecting the transport direction and the facing direction is longer than a length of the facing portion in the intersecting direction.

Heating device and image forming apparatus

A conveying device includes: a rotation part to which a holding part configured to hold a material to be conveyed is attached and configured to rotate in a circumferential direction to convey the material to be conveyed; a conveying roller that is provided with a recess for accommodating the holding part to convey the material to be conveyed; and a guide member including a guide portion configured to guide the material to be conveyed on a downstream side of the conveying roller, and a space in an intersecting direction intersecting the circumferential direction with respect to the guide portion, the space where the holding part moving by rotation of the rotation part passes through.

Conveying device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus

A fixing device includes: a non-contact heating unit configured to heat a recording medium being transported on a transport path in a non-contact manner; a facing member that is disposed along the transport path at a position facing the non-contact heating unit and that is configured to move with respect to the recording medium; and a tension unit configured to tension a facing member in a direction along the transport path.

A fixing device includes: a non-contact heating unit configured to heat a recording medium in a non-contact manner; and a contact heating unit configured to press and heat the recording medium on a downstream side of the non-contact heating unit in a conveyance direction of the recording medium, in which the non-contact heating unit controls an amount of heat applied to the recording medium according to information on whether the recording medium is black or not, and a thickness of the recording medium, and the contact heating unit controls the pressure applied to the recording medium according to the thickness regardless of whether the recording medium is black or not.

Fixing device and image-forming apparatus

A transport device includes a rotating body including a recessed portion on an outer surface, a rotatable heat unit that is in contact with the outer surface of the rotating body and forms an interposition region in which a recording medium is interposed between the heat unit and the rotating body, a transport unit that: (i) includes a hold member capable of holding a portion of the recording medium near a leading edge, (ii) transports the recording medium by moving the hold member in a rotational direction of the rotating body with the hold member contained in the recessed portion, and (iii) causes the hold member to pass through the interposition region, and a controller that controls rotation of the rotating body such that the recessed portion stops at a position upstream or downstream of the interposition region in the rotational direction when an anomaly is detected.

An image forming apparatus includes: a transfer unit that faces an image holding unit and is configured to come into contact with and separate from the image holding unit with a continuous form paper continuous in a transport direction interposed between the transfer unit and the image holding unit and to transfer an image held by the image holding unit onto the continuous form paper; a displacement unit that displaces the continuous form paper to a position closer to the image holding unit when the transfer unit separates from the image holding unit; and a contact portion that contacts the continuous form paper from a downstream side in a displacement direction before the continuous form paper displaced by the displacement unit contacts the image holding unit.

Image forming apparatus

A production system acquires a plan of production of plural types of products to be produced through sequential attachment of prints, determines an order of production of the prints to be attached to the plural types of products, respectively, and produces the prints in the determined production order.

Production system

An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit that forms a first toner layer on a medium on which an image is to be formed, a first fixing unit that fixes the first toner layer onto the medium, a second image forming unit that forms a second toner layer on the first toner layer on the medium by using a toner having a melting point lower than a melting point of a toner that is included in the first toner layer, and a second fixing unit that performs, in a state in which a foil layer is superposed on the second toner layer, a fixing operation at a temperature lower than a temperature at which the first fixing unit performs a fixing operation.

Image forming apparatus and foil-printed image forming apparatus

A production system includes: a production unit that produces prints with which products are to be tagged; an information acquisition unit that acquires defect information that is information on defect of tagged products that are products tagged with prints; and a changing unit that changes conditions of production of prints in the production unit based on the defect information acquired by the information acquisition unit.

An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit that forms a first toner layer on a medium on which an image is to be formed, a foil layer forming unit that forms a foil layer on the first toner layer on a surface of the medium on which an image is to be formed, and a second image forming unit that forms a second toner layer below the foil layer on the surface of the medium, on which an image is to be formed, in such a manner as to compensate for image steps that are formed by the first toner layer.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Mitsuhiro Matsumoto