Konica Minolta, Inc.

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Minolta Company, Ltd.

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Minolta Camera Co., Ltd.

Tatsuya Eguchi

Masayuki Inoue

Keiichiro Hyodo

Tetsuhiro Shibata

Tsutomu Suka

Takeshi Ishida

Taku Kimura

Tatsutoshi Yamada

Hiroaki Takatsu

Toshikazu Higashi

Kiyohito Tsujihara

Toshihisa Yamanaka

Norio Tamada

Takayuki Ogawa

Kenichi Hayashi

Hiroshi Mizuno

Akihito Ikegawa

Hiroyuki Yoshikawa

Naoki Kobayashi

Hiroshi Eguchi

Isao Watanabe

Akira Takasu

Akimasa Ishikawa

Yohei Yamada

Takashi Watanabe

Atomu Nakashima

Masahiro Kamiya

Hirofumi Hasegawa

Toshio Tsuboi

Yasuhiro Ishihara

Tomonobu Tamura

Makoto Obayashi

Yoshikazu Watanabe

Akihiro Hayashi

Kazuyoshi Hara

Hidenari Tachibe

Katsuyuki Ikuta

Hitoshi Sekino

Shunsuke Takamura

Yukinobu Iguchi

Shigetaka Kato

Takatoshi Hamada

Shinya Kawanishi

Yutaka Yamamoto

Yasuhiro Matsuura

Katsuyuki Taima

Shigeo Tomita

Shota Igo

Satoshi Yoshida

Naoya Nakayama

Kouichi Furuta

Yoshio Tohyama

Katsunari Oda

Keiichi Okada

Yoshihiko Sezukuri

Shougo Kamiya

Isamu Odagiri

An image forming system conveys a recording medium to form an image. The image forming system includes: a driver to drive an operation mechanism to convey a recording medium or an operation mechanism to form an image on the recording medium; a detector that detects a driving state of the driver; a diagnostic section diagnosing an abnormality of the operation mechanism based on a load obtained by converting a detection result by the detector based on a predetermined conversion condition; and an updater that, when at least one of components of the driver is replaced, updates the conversion condition in accordance with the replaced component.

Image forming system, diagnostic method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium

An image forming apparatus includes: a photoreceptor that forms a toner image; a light emission element that exposes the photoreceptor; at least one light emission controller that controls light emission of the light emission element; and a hardware processor that transmits a signal including a control parameter for controlling the light emission element with respect to the light emission controller, wherein the light emission controller stops light emission control over the light emission element according to communication that receives the signal including the control parameter from the hardware processor.

Image forming apparatus and method for controlling the same

An image forming apparatus includes: a housing part that is capable of housing a plurality of recording materials in such a manner that one recording material is put on another; a transport part that transports a recording material from the housing part; and a hardware processor that detects a kind of the recording material transported by the transport part, detects an amount of the recording materials housed in the housing part, detects replacement of recording materials housed in the housing part, or addition of recording materials in the housing part, on the basis of a result of the detection by the hardware processor, and, on the basis of a result of the detection by the hardware processor, switches whether or not to execute, by the hardware processor, the kind detection of the recording materials housed in the housing part.

Image forming apparatus, and method for controlling the same

An image forming apparatus including a polygon mirror that deflects a light beam, the image forming apparatus includes: an optical sensor arranged such that the light beam deflected by the polygon mirror enters the optical sensor; and a hardware processor that measures an output level of the optical sensor and calculates, as a remaining life of the polygon mirror, an operation time of the polygon mirror to when the output level becomes a threshold value in a case of assuming that the output level ongoingly changes at a rate of change over time that is a change amount of the output level per unit operation time of the polygon mirror, using the measured output level.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus including a polygon mirror that deflects a light beam includes: a light emitter that emits the light beam; an optical sensor that is disposed at a position on which the light beam deflected by the polygon mirror is incident; a detector that detects a minimum level being a light intensity level of the light beam, the lowest within a range detected by the optical sensor; a switcher that switches a light intensity level of the light beam emitted from the light emitter until the detector detects the minimum level; and a determiner that determines a degree of contamination of a component on an optical path of the light beam extending from the light emitter to the optical sensor, on the basis of the minimum level detected when the light intensity level is switched by the switcher.

A post-processing apparatus includes: a moving mechanism configured to move a punching apparatus in a width direction orthogonal to a transportation direction of a sheet; and a sensor configured to optically detect a mark formed on the sheet and indicating a position to be punched. The mark is configured such that an interval in the transportation direction between a plurality of feature portions extending in the width direction is configured to be changed depending on the width direction. The moving mechanism is configured to determine a position of the punching apparatus in the width direction based on a difference between respective timings of detection of the plurality of feature portions.

Post-processing apparatus and image forming apparatus for correcting deviation of punching position

An image reading apparatus includes: a movable body configured to illuminate a document with light; and an apparatus body configured to wirelessly transmit power to the movable body, wherein the movable body includes receiver coils, and a feed circuit in which the receiver coils uses receiving power to supply power to a load, the apparatus body includes transmitter coils placed along a track of the receiver coils, the transmitter coils and the receiver coils are placed such that power supply efficiency of any receiver coil with the transmitter coil placed along the track of the receiver coil fluctuates, and power supply efficiency related to one receiver coil increases at a position where power supply efficiency related to the other receiver coil drops, and the feed circuit supplies power sequentially using the receiving power of the receiver coil whose power supply efficiency is increased to highest among the receiver coils.

Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire atmosphere pressure in the installation place of the image forming apparatus, photoconductors, light sources configured to radiate laser light, and a polygon mirror configured to be rotatable. The polygon mirror exposes the photoconductors by reflecting the laser light toward the photoconductors while rotating. The image forming apparatus further includes a control device configured to control rotation of the polygon mirror. The control device outputs an enable signal for allowing the image forming apparatus to perform printing, if rotation of the polygon mirror is stabilized after start of the rotation, and advances the timing of outputting the enable signal as the atmosphere pressure increases.

Image forming apparatus, control method, and non-transitory recording medium which adjusts timing of print enable signal according to atmospheric pressure

A sheet post-processing device for post-processing of a recording sheet ejected from an image forming device in an ejection direction, the sheet post-processing device including: a first tray on which the recording sheet is placed after ejection; a push-out member that pushes out, in a push-out direction different from the ejection direction, the recording sheet placed on the first tray; and a guide member adjacent to an ejection direction downstream end of the first tray, the guide member supporting a portion of the recording sheet that protrudes from the first tray in the ejection direction. The guide member includes a resistive force reduction unit that reduces a resistive force that occurs due to contact between the guide member and the recording sheet, the resistive force hindering the pushing out of the recording sheet when the push-out member pushes out the recording sheet.

Image forming apparatus including a discharge tray extension with rollers

An image forming apparatus for performing laser exposure is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a driving circuit for supplying drive current to a laser light source in accordance with an image pulse signal; a pulse width expansion portion for expanding a pulse width of the image pulse signal supplied to the driving circuit; and an adjustment control portion for setting, based on state data indicating a state related to light emission start characteristics of the laser light source, a value of the bias current supplied as a part of the drive current to the laser light source and an amount of expansion of the pulse width in such a manner that laser light emission occurs in a period of time having a length equal to a length of a pulse width of each pulse in the image pulse signal.

Image forming apparatus that matches laser light emission time to pulse width of image pulse signal

An information input display device, having an input section for inputting information and a display section for displaying the information, which enables an access to protected information after being authenticated by an authentication processing executed after starting up of the information input display device, the information input display device including: an authentication processor which executes the authentication processing based on authentication information inputted by the input section; and an input display controller which, after the starting up of the information input display device and before being authenticated by the authentication processing, accepts inputting of prescribed information different from the authentication information through a screen displayed on the display section, and allows the display section to display the prescribed information on the screen.

Information input display device and control program thereof

An image forming apparatus that forms a color image by layering toner images of different colors includes: a photoreceptor on which an electrostatic latent image is formed through charging and exposure; an exposure unit performing exposure-scanning on the photoreceptor in accordance with image signal; an intensity determination unit determining exposure intensity according to image forming condition; and a timing determination unit determining a timing of inputting image signal for each scanning line, wherein the exposure unit has a delay duration differing depending on the exposure intensity and being from input of image signal of each pixel to be exposed to exposure of the pixel at the exposure intensity, and the timing determination unit obtains the delay duration corresponding to the exposure intensity, and determines the timing such that image signal of an initial pixel to be initially exposed is input the delay duration before the initial pixel is exposed.

Image forming apparatus for controlling misalignment in image forming position between colors

Disclosed is an information viewing apparatus, which makes it possible for the user to conduct operations for inputting information and establishing various kinds of functions only by conducting consecutive simplified operations from a multi-touchable touch panel. The apparatus includes a display section provided with a multi-touchable touch panel having first and second touch panels, and a control section that controls the display section. In a state that the display section is displaying a document, when detecting a predetermined dragging action, the control section makes the display section displays an inputting screen, which allows the user to conduct an inputting operation from the second touch panel, during a time when a touching status is maintained in such a manner that the inputting screen overlaps the document. When the touching status is released, the control section controls the display section so as to make the inputting screen evacuate from the document.

Information viewing apparatus, control program and controlling method

Disclosed is a management apparatus, which makes it possible to use an information viewing apparatus without considering the residual amount of the battery, provided therein. The apparatus includes: a plurality of slots to support a plurality of information viewing apparatuses, each of which is activated by an electric power fed from a battery provided therein and is to be inserted into each of the slots in a detachable manner; and a controlling section to control the plurality of information viewing apparatuses, respectively inserted into the slots. When a predetermined information viewing apparatus is inserted into one of the plurality of slots, the controlling section moves data stored in the predetermined information viewing apparatus to another information viewing apparatus, which is currently inserted into another one of the plurality of slots, depending on a residual amount of the battery provided in the predetermined information viewing apparatus.

Management apparatus, management system and management method

Disclosed is an electronic information terminal device, which makes it possible to establish an area having an arbitral shape only by performing a simple action on a multi-touchable panel provided therewith. The device includes: a display section that is provided with a touch panel, which is capable of detecting two or more touched positions simultaneously; and an area setting control section that establishes an area based on a moving locus of a line segment connecting a plurality of touched positions, when at least one of the plurality of touched positions has moved, so as to make the display section display an image in which information residing within the area, above-established, is erased, or in which another information is added into the area above-established. The device is provided with an erasing operation mode for erasing a figure and a depicting operation mode for depicting another figure in a selectable manner.

Electronic information terminal device and area setting control program

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Tatsuya Eguchi