Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Nobuo Iwata

Junichi Matsumoto

Satoshi Muramatsu

Nobuo Kasahara

Tomoyuki Ichikawa

Natsumi Katoh

Goro Katsuyama

Nobutaka Takeuchi

Tomoya Ohmura

Takayuki Koike

Yutaka Shio

Tomonori Yabuta

Yoshio Hattori

Masumi Sato

Kazuhisa Sudo

Tomotoshi Nakahara

Takaaki Yanagisawa

Kouta Fujimori

Hiromichi Matsuda

Katsuaki Miyawaki

Tadashi Shinohara

Takami Suzuki

Eriko Maruyama

Tetsuo Watanabe

Mitsugu Sugiyama

Toshiya Sato

Tsukuru Kai

Takahiro Tamiya

Tsuyoshi Deki

Takeshi Motohashi

Yasushi Nakazato

Toshiya Satoh

Hisashi Kikuchi

Keisuke Shimizu

Koji Sakamoto

Yasuo Miyoshi

Yasuhiro Maehata

Norio Kudo

Misao Tanzawa

Hiromi Takada

Yasutoshi Maeda

Shingo Katou

Masami Tsunasawa

Koji Suzuki

Takashi Hasegawa

Makoto Komatsu

Hideo Nakagawa

Hidetoshi Yano

Susumu Takahashi

Shigeo Kurotaka

Eiichi Sasaki

Hiromitsu Takagaki

Nobuto Yokokawa

Hisao Murayama

Masayoshi Sakakibara

Hiroshi Yoshimura

Shigeyuki Araki

Kenya Komada

Tomoatsu Imamura

Yoshiko Ishii

Koh Matsuhisa

Motonori Hanada

Masako Suzuki

Yasuko Yamamoto

Yoko Nozaki

Shingo Katoh

Masahiro Yoshimi

Junichi Matusmoto

A remote operation apparatus includes a display that displays a desktop screen of an apparatus to be remotely operated; and a controller that displays an input field on a desktop screen of the remote operation apparatus and activates a text input assistance module of the remote operation apparatus in a case in which an activation instruction to activate the text input assistance module of the remote operation apparatus is input, and enables the text input assistance module of the remote operation apparatus to input text to the input field.

Remote operation apparatus, remote operation system, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program with text input assistance

A remote operation apparatus includes: a display that displays a desktop screen of an apparatus to be remotely operated; and a controller that displays an input field and displays a soft keyboard in a case in which a specific operation is performed on a displayed desktop screen, and enables text input to the input field with the soft keyboard.

Remote operation apparatus, remote operation system, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program

An information processing apparatus includes: a user determination unit that determines whether or not plural user devices are used by a single user on the basis of information transmitted from the plural user devices; a storage unit that stores information of the plural user devices determined to be used by the single user as a set of user devices; a selection unit that selects a second user device to which a service is to be provided in the case where a first user device that requests the service and the second user device are both included in the same set of user devices; and a transmitting unit that transmits service information to the first and the second user device.

Transmitting service information to a plurality of user devices used by a single user

Transmitting service information to a plurality of user device used by a single user

Provided is an information processing apparatus including a reception section that receives a request for a process relative to management of a publication, a code acquisition section that acquires plural codes affixed to the publication, a determination section that determines whether or not a code corresponding to the process is present in the plural acquired codes, and a process execution section that executes the process based on the code when it is determined that the code corresponding to the process is present.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and non-transitory computer readable medium

A reduction gear unit incorporatable in an image forming apparatus includes planetary gear mechanisms each including a sun gear, an outer gear, planetary gears arranged between the outer gear and the sun gear at equal intervals and meshing with the sun gear and the outer gear, and a carrier rotatable coaxially with the sun gear and the outer gear to rotatably support the planetary gears. An extreme upstream mechanism in the drive transmission direction includes an input element connected to a drive source. An extreme downstream mechanism includes an output element connected to a member outputting the drive force to a rotary member. Any mechanism other than the extreme downstream mechanism includes an output element connected to an input element of an adjacent mechanism located downstream of any other mechanism. The sun gear of the extreme downstream mechanism has a larger pitch diameter than any other mechanisms.

Reduction gear unit and image forming apparatus incorporating same

A rotary body driver includes a driving source and a planetary gear transmission to receive a driving force from the driving source. The planetary gear transmission includes a sun gear rotatable by the driving force received from the driving source, a plurality of planet gears meshed with and surrounding the sun gear with an identical interval between the adjacent planet gears, a rotatable carrier to rotatably support the plurality of planet gears, an outer gear encircling and meshed with the plurality of planet gears, and an output shaft combined with and supporting the carrier. A rotary body shaft mounting a rotary body is connected to the output shaft of the planetary gear transmission to transmit the driving force received from the output shaft to the rotary body. The outer gear is made of resin and the output shaft and the carrier are made of metal.

Rotary body driver with planetary gear transmission and image forming apparatus incorporating same

A driving device includes a planetary gear deceleration mechanism in a transmission path that transmits driving force from a driving motor to a driven member, in which the deceleration mechanism includes first and second support units into which a housing that constitutes a mechanism main body is divided, the first support unit includes carriers of at least one stage and pinion gears supported thereby, and is provided with an output unit in the carrier of the final stage, the second support unit includes an output shaft that is detachable from the output unit and a supporting unit for the output shaft, and the output shaft is supported in an insertable and removable manner with respect to the output unit of the carriers in the first and the second support units that are joined to each other.

Driving device and image forming apparatus

A rotary drive device to drive a rotary body included in an image forming apparatus. The rotary drive device includes a drive source and a planetary gear mechanism to control torque from the drive source. The planetary gear mechanism includes a sun gear rotated by the torque, an annular gear coaxial to the sun gear and having inward-facing teeth, multiple planetary gears provided within the annular gear, and a carrier rotatable coaxially to the sun gear and the annular gear to rotatably support the multiple planetary gears. The annular gear is formed by injecting molten resin into a mold having a cylindrical cavity with teeth shapes along an inner circumference of the cavity from multiple pin gates provided to the mold at equal intervals along a circumference of the cavity. A number of pin gates is a non-integer multiple of a number of planetary gears.

Rotary drive device with a planetary gear mechanism to drive a rotary body, and image forming apparatus including the same

A planetary gear unit including a sun gear rotatable by torque from a drive source, an outer gear disposed coaxially with the sun gear, multiple planetary gears disposed within the outer gear at equal intervals along an inner circumference of the outer gear to engage the sun gear and the outer gear, a carrier pin to rotatably support each of the multiple planetary gears, and a carrier rotatable coaxially with the sun gear and the outer gear to support both ends of the carrier pin. At least a first end of the carrier pin is constructed of a circular portion and a linear portion to form a first supported part. The carrier includes a first support part that supports the first supported part and is formed to position the circular portion of the first supported part downstream from the linear portion in a direction of rotation of the carrier.

Planetary gear unit and image forming apparatus including same

An information processor includes an information processing unit that executes an information process by reference to a setting, a setting unit that executes a provisional selection to select one or more selection items among multiple selection items and a definitive selection for deciding the provisional selection by reference to an operation by a user and determines a setting of the information process by reference to a result of the definitive selection, a determination unit that determines a selection item to be explained by reference to one or more selection item provisionally selected by the setting unit, and an explanation outputting unit that outputs an explanation for the user for the selection item to be explained which is determined by the determination unit.

Help menu display processing with reference to provisional and definitive user selections

The development device includes a development member and a circulation member. The development member develops an electrostatic latent image formed on a latent image carrier with a developer including toner and a carrier to make the electrostatic latent image visible. The circulation member receives the developer discharged from the development member and conveys the developer back to the development member. The circulation member includes a container provided upstream from the development member in a conveyance direction of the developer to store the developer. The container includes an agitator provided inside the container and agitates and mixes the developer and fresh toner supplied to the container. The agitator includes a rotatable agitation member in which one or more holes are formed through which the developer passes to mix the fresh toner and the developer to be agitated in the container.

Development device and image forming apparatus

A developing apparatus for an image forming apparatus. In order to suppress toner scattering that may occur after a development operation has been halted for a long time, the developer is transferred to a developer storage unit on the exterior of the developing machine when the development operation ends. A range in which an angle of a restricting member upstream side central angle &#x3b1;, which is a central angle of the surface of a developing roller on the upstream side of a restricting member opposing position opposing a developer amount restricting member in a surface motion direction of the developing roller, is not less than 0&#xb0; and not more than 60&#xb0; is set as a low magnetic flux density area &#x3b3; in which the maximum value of a normal direction magnetic flux density on the surface of the developing roller is not more than 30 mT.

Developing apparatus and image forming apparatus using same

A decelerator for reducing a speed of rotation of a drive source and transmitting drive of the drive source to an image bearing member of an image forming apparatus includes a drive shaft, a drive transmission member, and a pressure regulator. The drive shaft is rotated by the drive source. The drive transmission member is rotated by the drive shaft and includes a peripheral surface that contacts the drive shaft. The pressure regulator presses the drive shaft against a center of rotation of the drive transmission member and includes an alignment regulator to regulate alignment of the drive shaft in a direction of rotation of the drive transmission member. A drive device for rotating an image bearing member includes a drive source including a drive shaft, and the decelerator. An image forming apparatus includes the drive device and an image bearing member rotated by the drive device.

Decelerator, drive device including same, and image forming apparatus incorporating the drive device

A developing device includes a developing unit, a developer agitating unit, a developer conveying unit, and a toner supplementing unit. The developing unit develops an electrostatic latent image on an image carrier with a developer containing toner and carrier. The developer agitating unit agitates the developer. The developer conveying unit connects the developing unit and the developer agitating unit, and conveys the developer from the developing unit to the developer agitating unit. The toner supplementing unit is connected to the developer conveying unit, and supplements toner to the developer conveyed from the developing unit to the developer agitating unit.

Developing device and image forming apparatus

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Nobuo Iwata