公开(公告)号：US20240343521A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-17

申请号：US18627217

申请日：2024-04-04

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Yuki Fukasawa ,  Masanori Taguchi ,  Ryota Kikuchi

IPC: B65H39/06

CPC classification number: B65H39/06 ,  B65H2511/415 ,  B65H2511/416 ,  B65H2801/27

Abstract: A processor causes, when the number of initial insertion sheets is one or more, an insertion conveying portion and a takeover conveying portion to operate at either one of a conveying speed that is the same as a print conveying speed corresponding to a first recording sheet and a reference conveying speed according to a magnitude relationship between the number of initial insertion sheets and an initial sheet count in conveyance of the initial insertion sheets. In addition, the processor causes a body conveying portion and the takeover conveying portion to operate at the corresponding print conveying speed in conveyance of the recording sheet irrespective of the number of initial insertion sheets.

公开(公告)号：US20240343444A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-17

申请号：US18626763

申请日：2024-04-04

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Atsuhiro WAKIMOTO

IPC: B65D19/20 ,  B65D19/44

CPC classification number: B65D19/20 ,  B65D19/44 ,  B65D2519/00159 ,  B65D2519/00194 ,  B65D2519/00497 ,  B65D2519/00537 ,  B65D2519/00661 ,  B65D2519/00815

Abstract: A packing fastener includes a base member and a key member. The base member includes: a first tubular portion; a flange portion provided on a first opening edge of the first tubular portion at one end; and a pair of hook members coupled to opposite inner side faces of the first tubular portion to be bent toward a second opening edge of the first tubular portion at the other end. The key member has a second tubular portion removably insertable in the first tubular portion via the first opening edge. The pair of hook members are, with no external force applied to it, arranged in a wedge shape as seen in a sectional view to be increasingly close to each other toward tip ends. An outer side face of the first tubular portion has a slope inclined inward from the first opening edge toward the second opening edge.

公开(公告)号：US20240343050A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-17

申请号：US18630060

申请日：2024-04-09

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Satoru NAKAMURA

IPC: B41J13/08 ,  B41J2/165 ,  B41J11/00 ,  B65H5/22

CPC classification number: B41J13/08 ,  B41J2/16526 ,  B41J11/0085 ,  B65H5/224 ,  B65H2404/25

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, an endless belt, a plurality of through holes for flashing, a droplet receiver, and an anti-floating member. In the recording head, a plurality of nozzles capable of ejecting droplets onto a recording medium are arranged. The endless belt conveys the recording medium toward a position where an image is to be formed on the recording medium by the recording head. The through holes are formed in the endless belt. The droplet receiver receives flashing droplets having been ejected from the nozzles by flashing without contributing to formation of the image and having passed through the through holes. The anti-floating member prevents floating of end portions of the endless belt in a widthwise direction of the endless belt.

公开(公告)号：US20240333850A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-03

申请号：US18611834

申请日：2024-03-21

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Thang Duc NGUYEN

IPC: H04N1/00 ,  B65H5/06 ,  H04N1/028

CPC classification number: H04N1/00588 ,  B65H5/06 ,  H04N1/00559 ,  H04N1/028 ,  B65H2403/481 ,  B65H2403/514 ,  B65H2801/03

Abstract: A sheet conveying device includes a drive device, a conveyance device, an optical unit, a white reference member, and a transmission device. The drive device generates a driving force. The conveyance device conveys a sheet by a rotary driving force of the drive device. The optical unit includes an image reading unit that extends in a longitudinal direction thereof along a widthwise direction orthogonal to a direction of conveyance of the sheet, applies light to the sheet, and reads light reflected from the sheet with an image sensor. The white reference member extends in the longitudinal direction of the image reading unit and is read by the image reading unit. The transmission device transmits the driving force generated by the drive device to rock the optical unit in the widthwise direction. The transmission device includes a rocking member that rocks the optical unit in a longitudinal direction thereof.

公开(公告)号：US20240329584A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-03

申请号：US18617244

申请日：2024-03-26

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Yasuaki Sakamoto ,  Masaru Watanabe ,  Kenichi Hayashi ,  Ayato Morikami ,  Hideyuki Ogasawara ,  Yukiko Yoshimura

IPC: G03G15/00

CPC classification number: G03G15/5041 ,  G03G15/5045 ,  G03G15/5062

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an adjustment processing portion, an acquisition processing portion, and a determination processing portion. Each time an adjustment condition is satisfied during execution of an image forming process, the adjustment processing portion uses toner to adjust one adjustment target selected in accordance with a specific order among a plurality of adjustment targets related to image quality of an output image output by the image forming process. The acquisition processing portion acquires variation amount information related to an amount of variation in a state value related to an image forming portion caused by a start of the image forming process. The determination processing portion determines an adjustment target to be adjusted first after the start of the image forming process by the adjustment processing portion, based on the variation amount information acquired by the acquisition processing portion.

公开(公告)号：US20240319629A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-26

申请号：US18575573

申请日：2022-03-31

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Tamotsu SHIMIZU ,  Kohei TERASAKI ,  Yusuke KURANO ,  Masashi YAMASHITA ,  Eriko TAKEUCHI

IPC: G03G9/097 ,  G03G9/08 ,  G03G9/113

CPC classification number: G03G9/09733 ,  G03G9/0819 ,  G03G9/1136 ,  G03G9/1139

Abstract: In a two-component developer, external additive particles of toner particles include resin particles. The resin particles contain a crosslinked resin including a repeating unit derived from a crosslinking agent. Carrier particles each include a carrier core and a coat layer covering a surface of the carrier core. The coat layers contain a coating resin and barium titanate particles. The coating resin includes a silicone resin. The barium titanate particles have a number average primary particle diameter within a range of 100 nm to 500 nm. The barium titanate particles have a content within a range of 5 parts by mass to 45 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the coating resin. A rate of a mass of the coat layers to a mass of the carrier cores is greater than 0.0% by mass and no greater than 4.9% by mass. The carrier cores have a shape factor within a range of 34.0% to 85.0%.

公开(公告)号：US12098052B2

公开(公告)日：2024-09-24

申请号：US18111547

申请日：2023-02-18

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Keisuke Egawa ,  Terumitsu Noso ,  Yasunori Ueno

IPC: B65H45/18 ,  B65H5/02 ,  B65H7/20 ,  B65H45/14 ,  B65H45/16

CPC classification number: B65H45/147 ,  B65H5/025 ,  B65H7/20 ,  B65H45/164 ,  B65H2511/224 ,  B65H2801/27

Abstract: A postprocessing device performs postprocessing on sheets received from an image forming apparatus. The postprocessing device includes a pair of folding rollers, a folding blade, a transport device, a drive portion, and a drive controller. The drive controller controls the drive portion to match moving speed of a tip portion of the folding blade with moving speed of a circumferential surface of the folding rollers, at a time point that the sheaf of the sheets makes contact with the circumferential surface of the folding rollers, when the image forming apparatus forms the image by ink jet printing, and to match the moving speed of the tip portion of the folding blade with the moving speed of the circumferential surface of the folding rollers, at a time point that the sheaf of the sheets reaches the nip region between the folding rollers.

公开(公告)号：US20240311598A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-19

申请号：US18121954

申请日：2023-03-15

Applicant: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Jayant BHATT ,  Arturo BECERRA ,  Robert T. CUNNINGHAM ,  Edwin Philip LOCKWOOD ,  Javier A. MORALES

IPC: G06K15/02 ,  G06F3/12 ,  G06K15/00

CPC classification number: G06K15/1857 ,  G06F3/1215 ,  G06F3/124 ,  G06K15/005 ,  G06K15/1823 ,  G06K15/1843

Abstract: A raster image processor (RIP) system is used in a printing system to process a variety of different jobs. A front end receives the jobs and determines the job type. The job types include a print job, a preview job, and an estimation job. Depending on the type of job, the front end configures the RIPs within RIP system accordingly to process the job. The RIPs may process the job in parallel, with a high performance RIP processing the first page of the job. If the job is not processed in parallel, then the front end assigns the job to a very high performance RIP. The front end also assigns the preview job to a preview RIP and the estimation job to an estimation RIP. The front end configures RIPs as needed.

公开(公告)号：US20240310756A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-19

申请号：US18599732

申请日：2024-03-08

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Masahiro UENO ,  Hirofumi TSUJI

IPC: G03G15/08

CPC classification number: G03G15/0889 ,  G03G2215/0822 ,  G03G2215/0827 ,  G03G2215/085

Abstract: A developing device includes a developer container, a developer carrier, and a stirring/conveying member. The developer container includes: a lower housing having a first accommodating portion and a first edge portion formed in a top end portion of it; and an upper housing having a second accommodating portion and a second edge portion formed in a bottom end portion of it. The first edge portion has a depression extending along the first edge portion, a first contact face formed inward of the depression, and a first opposite face formed outward of the depression. The second edge portion has an elevation inserted in the depression, a second contact face making contact with the first contact face, and a second opposite face facing the first opposite face. When the first and second contact faces are in contact, the first and second opposite faces face each other across a predetermined interval.

公开(公告)号：US12093582B2

公开(公告)日：2024-09-17

申请号：US17994533

申请日：2022-11-28

Applicant: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Javier A. Morales

IPC: G06F3/12

CPC classification number: G06F3/1225 ,  G06F3/1204 ,  G06F3/1292

Abstract: A peer-to-peer network of printing devices is configured to share information and color printing resources, such as TRCs, spot colors, and ICC profiles, as well as paper catalogs within the network without the need for a centralized server or cloud service. The digital front ends (DFEs) of the printing devices manage printing device information which is made available to all printing devices. When an update occurs at a printing device within the peer-to-peer network, its DFE sends a signal to the other printing devices to synchronize their information with the updated information. When a new printing device is added to the peer-to-peer network, its information and color printing resources are merged or replaced with the information within the network.