Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Seigo Makida

Takao Furuya

Shoji Yamaguchi

Kiyoshi Hosoi

Katsumi Sakamaki

Yoshinari Iwaki

Kenji Kuroishi

Eizo Kurihara

Kenichi Kobayashi

Takashi Ogino

Hiroyuki Hotta

Kazuhiko Narushima

Kiyofumi Aikawa

Masaki Hachisuga

Shinho Ikeda

Yuji Murata

Tatsuyuki Tanaka

Yoshihiko Sakai

Akiko Mochizuki

Toshiharu Hayashida

Kazuaki Watanabe

Tsutomu Abe

Hisao Ito

Naoki Hiji

Tsukasa Matsuda

Mario Fuse

Kenta Ogata

Masao Watanabe

Kiyoshi Iida

Kunihiro Takahashi

Ryota Mizutani

Hideki Moriya

Takashi Hiramatsu

Michio Kikuchi

Minoru Ohshima

Hiroyuki Funo

Yoshio Nishihara

Kazuya Fukunaga

Kiichiro Iijima

Hiroyoshi Inoue

Koji Morofuji

Shinichi Tai

Shinichiro Taga

Mitsuharu Ohata

Mitsuharu Ohhata

Yoshio Mochizuki

Eiji Aoki

Tatsuyoshi Mori

A conveyance path forming body includes: a first surface that is disposed on an opposite side of a sheet to a processing unit disposed on a side of one surface of the sheet being conveyed along a conveyance path to perform processing on the one surface; and a second surface that is disposed at a downstream of the first surface in a conveying direction of the sheet so as to be more distant from the processing unit than a hypothetical extension surface of the first surface.

Conveyance path forming body and conveying machine

Provided is a transport device including plural rollers that are provided on a transporting path on which a sheet is transported in a transport direction and is subjected to a process at a process position, and transport the sheet which comes into contact with surfaces of the rollers in the transport direction by rotation of the rollers, among the plural rollers, first rollers that are provided closest to the process position, among the plural rollers, second rollers that are provided closest to the first rollers on an opposite side with respect to the process position, and a driving unit that drives the first rollers and the second rollers to rotate so that a speed of a surface of the first roller is faster than a speed of a surface of the second roller at least while the sheet passes through the process position.

Transport device and transport system

There provided a guide member including: a first guide member that is disposed to face a first surface of a sheet which is transported to a first direction and that guides the sheet in front and at the rear of a processing position at which a process is performed on the first surface; and a second guide member that is disposed to face a second surface of the sheet and guides the sheet, wherein the second guide member includes specific plural convex portions.

Guide member and transport device

Provided is a transport device including a first roller that is driven to rotate by a driving section, and transports a recording medium, a second roller that includes a second rotating shaft and a second rotating section, and pushes the transported recording medium against the first roller, the second rotating section including a first member that comes into contact with the recording medium, and a second member that comes into contact with the second roller when the recording medium having a predetermined size is transported, and a measurement unit that measures speed at which second rotating shaft rotates, wherein a force with which the first member rotates the second rotating shaft is greater than a force with which the second member rotates the second rotating shaft.

Transport device, image forming apparatus, and image reading apparatus

Provided is a manufacturing method of a label, including configuring a member for a label so as to dispose a magnetic member between a base material and a covering material, cutting the magnetic member along with the base material so as to cut a label from the member for a label, removing an unnecessary portion of the base material from the member for a label, and detecting whether or not the label is present in the unnecessary portion of the base material or whether or not the label is present in the member for a label in which the unnecessary portion of the base material has been removed.

Manufacturing method of label and member for label

Provided is a transport device including a first transport member that transports a sheet-shaped medium in a transport direction, a transport path that is formed by a first guiding member which guides the medium in the transport direction and a second guiding member which guides the medium in the transport direction, at least one of the first guiding member and the second guiding member including a widened part on a downstream side of a processing position and on an upstream side of a second transport member, a pressing member that presses the medium to the first guiding member, a processing unit that performs a processing on the medium which is transported in the transport path, and a second transport member that transports the medium, which is guided by the first guiding member and the second guiding member, in the transport direction.

Transport device

A conveyance apparatus includes: a first conveying unit that includes a first conveyance passage along a first direction forming an angle with respect to a horizontal direction, and conveys a medium in the first direction; a returning conveyance unit that conveys the medium towards a second direction having a component of an opposite direction to the first direction; a second conveying unit that includes a second conveyance passage along the second direction, and conveys the medium in the second direction; a first processing unit that is disposed on the first conveyance path, and performs processing on a first surface of the conveying medium; and a second processing unit that is disposed at a position closer to the returning conveyance unit than the first processing unit, and performs processing on a second surface of the conveying medium.

Conveyance apparatus and conveyance system

A controller includes a pattern forming unit that forms patterns multiple times on a first image holding member which is driven such that a surface thereof is circulated, a first detection unit that optically detects the patterns formed on the first image holding member by the pattern forming unit, a second detection unit that optically detects the patterns transferred from the first image holding member to a recording medium which is transported in a set transport direction, and an adjustment unit that adjusts a length in the transport direction of an image transferred to the recording medium on the basis of a time interval when the patterns are detected by the first detection unit and a time interval when the patterns are detected by the second detection unit.

Controller, image forming apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and image forming method

A sensing device includes: a magnetic field generating coil that generates an alternating magnetic field in a sensing-target region; a signal inducing coil in which is induced an electric signal corresponding to the alternating magnetic field generated by the magnetic field generating coil; an amplifier that amplifies a third electric signal obtained from the difference between a first electric signal induced in the signal inducing coil in a state where a sensing-target magnetic body is present in the sensing-target region and a second electric signal induced in the signal inducing coil in a state where the magnetic body is not present in the sensing-target region; and a sensing unit that senses, on the basis of the third electric signal amplified by the amplifier, the magnetic body passing through the sensing-target region by sensing a change in the magnetic field resulting from magnetization reversal of the magnetic body.

Sensing device, sensing method, and computer-readable storage medium

A sheet identifying apparatus includes: an excitation coil disposed upstream in a passage through which a sheet inserted into an input port passes and wound on an outer periphery of the passage; a first output unit that detects a magnetization variation of a magnetic element due to the excited excitation coil when the sheet having the magnetic element passes through a region of the passage where the excitation coil is disposed in a state where an AC current is applied to the excitation coil and that outputs a first detection signal when the magnetization variation is detected; and a second output unit that detects that the sheet passes through a region downstream in the passage on the basis of a characteristic of the sheet without using the magnetic element and that outputs a second detection signal when detecting that the sheet passes through the region.

Sheet identifying apparatus, image reading system, sheet shredding system, non-transitory computer-readable medium, and sheet indentifying method

The communication apparatus including: a communication unit communicating with external apparatuses via a communication line; a notification unit notifying, from the communication unit, the external apparatuses of stop of electric power supply to a controller controlling operation, when electric power supply to the controller is stopped; an identification information memory for storing identification information of one of the external apparatuses when, after the notification unit makes the notification, the notification unit again makes the notification to the one of the external apparatuses upon receipt of a signal from the one of the external apparatuses; and a signal processor processing a signal received from any of the external apparatuses by the communication unit. The signal processor discards a signal, when a transmission source of the signal is one of the external apparatuses having the identification information matching the identification information stored in the identification information memory.

Communication apparatus, communication method, computer readable medium and image forming apparatus

The information processing system includes: an information processor operating in an active state and a power saving state consuming less power than the active state, and recovering to the active state by receiving a signal in the power saving state and processing information in the signal; a signal transmitting device transmitting a signal to the information processor; and a communication line establishing communication between the information processor and the signal transmitting device. The signal transmitting device transmits the signal after appending, to a predetermined region inside the signal, the identification information for identifying a processing content of the signal. The information processor specifies the processing content from the identification information when receiving, in the power saving state, the signal, recovers to the active state where power is supplied to a functional unit to execute the processing content, and starts processing on information stored in a data region of the signal.

Information processing system, information processor and signal transmitting device

An information processor includes a storage unit storing a first coefficient in correspondence with a characteristic of a sheet of paper, a first acquisition unit acquiring a first signal based on the water content of a first sheet of paper not having an image formed thereon, a second acquisition unit acquiring a second signal based on the water content of the first sheet of paper having an image formed thereon and being heated for fixing, a determination unit determining the characteristic of the first sheet of paper, a first calculation unit calculating a variation in water content of the first sheet of paper using the difference between the first signal and the second signal and the first coefficient stored in correspondence with the determined characteristic, and a second calculation unit calculating an expansion and contraction ratio of the first sheet of paper using the variation in water content.

Information processor, image forming apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium

The invention provides a paper having a paper body which contains pulp fiber and a magnetic material having a large Barkhausen effect, and an image that is formed on at least one surface of the paper body and is simulative of the magnetic material contained in the paper body.

Paper

An image forming apparatus includes a forming section that forms an image on a side of paper; a fixing section that applies heat to fix the image onto the side of the paper; a paper reversing section that reverses a front and back of the paper having the image fixed onto a first side in the fixing section; a first measuring section that is provided between a registration roller and the forming section to measure a first moisture content of the paper before an image is formed on the first side, and a second moisture content of the paper before an image is formed on a second side, after the image is fixed on the first side; and a calculating section that calculates amount of change of the size of the paper on the basis of the difference between the first moisture content and the second moisture content.

Image forming apparatus

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Kanagawa, Japan

Seigo Makida