Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Konica Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Nec Corporation

Kyocera Corporation

Konica-minolta Holdings, Inc.

Dai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha

Satoshi Nishida

Shigetaka Kurosu

Hiroshi Morimoto

Kazuteru Ishizuka

Mikihiko Takada

Akihiro Otani

Yusuke Nishisaka

Masashi Saito

Hideo Yamaki

Hiroaki Miho

Toshiki Hayami

Kenji Kumamoto

Jun Sato

Naoki Miyamoto

Yoshio Ozawa

Takeshi Maeyama

Shin Norieda

Yoshinori Saida

Mineyuki Sako

Hisashi Mukataka

Koji Funaoka

Hiroaki Kurokawa

Shoichiro Hara

Tomo Kitada

Ryushi Imoo

Takao Ohara

Masato Kubota

Junichi Hamada

Masaki Kuzumoto

Daisuke Murakami

Masato Matsubara

Masanori Mizuno

Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Kazuhiko Shimizu

Kunihisa Yoshino

Shuichi Fujikawa

Masaharu Moriyasu

Tomotaka Katsura

Daiji Morita

Tomohiro Kyoto

Miki Kurosawa

Toshiki Koshimae

Mitsuo Motohashi

Shozui Takeno

Susumu Konno

Takashi Kawanago

Yujiro Ishida

Nobuhiko Okano

Masanori Aoyama

Hajime Kubota

Hiroshi Kino

Sachie Matsudaira

Motohide Tamura

Kazuo Sugihara

Tetuya Endo

Tatsumi Asai

Akira Takahashi

Shigeto Takeshima

An image forming apparatus includes: a first rotatable member; a second rotatable member that presses against the first rotatable member in a pressed state and separates from the first rotatable member in a separated state; and a hardware processor that sets a target speed of the second rotatable member based on a change in speed of the second rotatable member between a first speed in the separated state and a second speed in the pressed state.

Image forming apparatus

An information processing apparatus () displays an operation image () on a display screen () associated with a head mounted display (). First, the information processing apparatus () acquires work information. The work information includes information for determining a work target which is a target of work performed by a user of the head mounted display (). The information processing apparatus () determines a work target satisfying a provision condition by using the work information. The information processing apparatus () displays the operation image () for selecting the determined work target on the display screen () in an operable manner. The information processing apparatus () detects an input operation on the operation image ().

Information processing apparatus, control method, and program

A cleaning device includes a thin plate-shaped first blade that cleans a surface of a toner carrying body by making a tip portion come in contact with the toner carrying body to carry toner. The first blade includes a substrate and a coat layer covering a surface of the substrate. In the first blade, a cross-sectional shape, in a thickness direction, of the tip portion is a convex shape, or a protruding shape in which a center side protrudes more than an end portion of a contact side.

Cleaning device and image forming apparatus

An information processing apparatus () includes a first determination unit (), a second determination unit (), and a display control unit (). The first determination unit () detects a first marker () from a captured image (), and determines content corresponding to the detected first marker (). The second determination unit () detects a second marker () from the captured image (), and determines a display position of a content image () in a display screen on the basis of the detected second marker (). The display control unit () displays the content image () at the determined display position in the display screen.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, control method, and program

An image forming apparatus which forms a toner image on an image carrier based on image formation data, and transfers the toner image onto a sheet having an unevenness on a surface and forms an image, the image forming apparatus including a hardware processor which detects a parameter value regarding a charging amount of a toner that forms the toner image, sets a size of a dot of the toner image according to the detected parameter value, and generates the image formation data of the dot of the set size.

Image forming apparatus and computer readable storage medium storing program

A cleaning device cleans a surface of a toner carrier carrying a toner, and the cleaning device includes: a first blade in contact with the surface of the toner carrier; a second blade made of a material harder than a material of the first blade and in contact with the surface of the toner carrier; and a lubricant applicator that applies a lubricant to the surface of the toner carrier, wherein the first blade, the second blade and the lubricant applicator are arranged in this order from an upstream side in a moving direction of the toner carrier based on a transfer position of the toner.

A laser beam machine includes a number of laser modules that each generate a laser beam and a combiner that collects a plurality of laser beams generated from the laser modules to output one laser beam. The laser beam machine further includes a plurality of driving power supplies that supply power to the laser modules, respectively, a calculation device that calculates a driving condition for each of the laser modules according to a received machining condition, and a power-supply control apparatus that causes the driving power supplies to supply power to the laser modules in accordance with the driving condition. The calculation device controls the power-supply control apparatus to reduce differences in integrated laser-output times of the laser beams generated by the laser modules.

Laser beam machine and calculation device for laser beam machine

The image forming system having an image forming apparatus and a charge adjusting apparatus has a decision unit that decides an amount of charge to be applied to a recording sheet from coverages of toner images of both surfaces of the recording sheet, the image forming apparatus has a fixing unit that heats and presses a recording sheet to which a toner image is transferred, thereby fixing the toner image to the recording sheet, and the charge adjusting apparatus has a voltage applying unit that applies a voltage to the recording sheet to which the toner image is fixed by the fixing unit, thereby applying charge with the amount decided by the decision unit to the recording sheet.

Image forming system, image forming method, and charge adjusting apparatus

An image forming apparatus according to the present invention includes: an opposite roller switching mechanism which switches an opposite roller forming a transfer nip to a second opposite roller of which the outer diameter is different from the outer diameter of a first opposite roller; a paper type information acquirer which acquires the type information of a recording medium used; and a controller which controls the opposite roller switching mechanism based on the type information acquired from the paper type information acquirer.

Image forming apparatus having opposite roller switching and image forming system

The laser machining apparatus includes a transmission fiber that transmits laser light emitted from a laser oscillator through the fiber, a machining head that emits the laser light, which is sent from the transmission fiber, vertically to a main surface of a machining object and sends reflected light, which is reflected coaxially with the laser light by the machining object, to the transmission fiber, a reflected light monitoring unit that detects a reflected light intensity of the reflected light sent from the transmission fiber, and a control device that controls the laser oscillator and the machining head, in which the control device includes a determining unit that, at a time when laser machining is started, determines whether the machining object corresponds to a machining condition or not in laser machining on the basis of the reflected light intensity.

Laser machining apparatus that monitors material thickness and type by reflected light intensity

A semiconductor laser apparatus, including: a beam divergence angle correction optical system for correcting a divergence angle of beams generated from light emitting points of a semiconductor laser bar; a beam rotation optical system for rotating the beams each having the corrected divergence angle; a wavelength dispersion optical element having a wavelength dispersion function; and a partial reflection mirror. A relative position of the beam divergence angle correction optical system with respect to the light emitting point in a divergence angle correction direction is changed for each light emitting point.

Semiconductor laser apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes: a transfer belt that is stretched on a plurality of support rollers including a backup roller in a loop-like manner and has an outer surface for carrying thereon a toner image; a transfer roller that is brought into pressurized contact with the backup roller across the transfer belt and forms a transfer nip with the transfer belt; a restriction member that is placed upstream of a transfer nip in a sheet conveying direction so as to be switchable between a first state in which the restriction member is brought closer to an inner surface of the transfer belt and a second state in which a distance of the restriction member from the inner surface of the transfer belt is larger than that in the first state; and a control section that switches a state of the restriction member.

An image forming apparatus including: an image forming section having a intermediate transfer body to carry a toner image on a photoreceptor and transfer the toner image onto a sheet of paper; a cleaning section for removing residual toner on the intermediate transfer body by bringing a cleaning blade into close contact with the intermediate transfer body; and a control section for controlling a rotation of the intermediate transfer body so as to carry out a return action of a blade configuration which stops or reverses the rotation of the intermediate transfer body, when a rotation amount reaches a predetermined value, wherein the control section carries out the return action when the rotation amount reaches a value smaller than the predetermined value, in a case where a plurality of previous printing jobs is determined to be intermittent printing.

An image forming apparatus includes a transfer belt, a pressure receiving roller, a suspension roller, a secondary transfer roller, and an endless support belt. The support belt is stretched over at least one of the pressure receiving roller and the suspension roller. When pressing the transfer belt between the pressure receiving roller and the secondary transfer roller, and nipping paper between the transfer belt and the secondary transfer roller, an angle defined by the portion, upstream from the secondary transfer roller, of the transfer belt and an imaginary line connecting the pressure-receiving-roller axis with the secondary-transfer-roller axis is less than 90 degrees. A part of the support belt is held between the transfer belt and at least one of the two rollers over which the support belt is stretched.

Image forming apparatus with support belt deforming member

An image forming apparatus includes a transfer belt, a pressure receiving roller, a secondary transfer roller, and a belt movement restricting section. The belt movement restricting section is disposed close to the back of the belt. When pressing the belt between the pressure receiving roller and the secondary transfer roller, and nipping paper between the belt and the secondary transfer roller, an angle defined by the portion, upstream from the secondary transfer roller, of the belt and an imaginary line connecting the pressure-receiving-roller axis with the secondary-transfer-roller axis is less than 90 degrees. During non-secondary-transfer mode, the belt movement restricting section is separated from the belt. During secondary transfer, the belt movement restricting section holds the belt not to let the belt pushed by the paper move toward the pressure receiving roller.

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Saitama, Japan

Satoshi Nishida