公开(公告)号：US12090762B2

公开(公告)日：2024-09-17

申请号：US17865186

申请日：2022-07-14

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Takeshi Watanabe

IPC: B41J2/165 ,  B41J11/00 ,  B41J2/045

CPC classification number: B41J2/16526 ,  B41J11/007 ,  B41J2/04573 ,  B41J2002/16573 ,  B41J2002/16591

Abstract: A control portion sets, as a control period, a period after arrival, at a position opposite a recording head, of a first recording medium until passage, at the position opposite the recording head, of a last recording medium. The control portion sets nozzles that do not face the recording medium during the control period as first nozzles, and nozzles that face the recording medium during the control period as second nozzles, to make the total amount of ink ejected by each of the first nozzles in flashing processing during the control period smaller than the total amount of ink ejected by each of the second nozzles.

公开(公告)号：US20240305730A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-12

申请号：US18600335

申请日：2024-03-08

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Takehiro Sato

IPC: H04N1/00 ,  H04N1/12

CPC classification number: H04N1/00909 ,  H04N1/00551 ,  H04N1/123 ,  H04N2201/0422

Abstract: The present disclosure is an image forming apparatus including a paper dust cleaning device which removes paper dust adhered onto a surface of a conveying roller. The paper dust cleaning device includes a paper dust removing member which comes into contact with the surface of the conveying roller, a holder which holds the paper dust removing member, and a holder supporting portion which holds the holder at a predetermined attachment position so that the paper dust removing member comes into contact with the surface of the conveying roller, and the holder supporting portion includes a first guide portion which is provided on a side of the attachment position and guides the holder to a separated position at which the holder is set apart from the surface of the conveying roller in accordance with a movement of the holder from the attachment position toward a side of an insertion slot.

公开(公告)号：US20240302760A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-12

申请号：US18598653

申请日：2024-03-07

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Toshiki TAKEMORI

IPC: G03G9/097 ,  G03G9/08

CPC classification number: G03G9/09708 ,  G03G9/0819

Abstract: A toner contains toner particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle and an external additive attached to the surface of the toner mother particle. The external additive contains specific external additive particles. The specific external additive particles each include an aluminum oxide particle and a coat layer covering the surface of the aluminum oxide particle. The coat layers contain antimony tin oxide particles. The specific external additive particles have a powder specific resistance of no greater than 100 Ω·cm. The specific external additive particles have a volume median diameter of 100 nm to 550 nm. The specific external additive particles have surfaces with an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of 8 nm to 45 nm. The specific external additive particles have a content of 0.3 parts by mass to 4.0 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the toner mother particles.

公开(公告)号：US12086665B2

公开(公告)日：2024-09-10

申请号：US18528792

申请日：2023-12-05

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Katsuo Mikashima

IPC: G06K15/02 ,  G06K15/00

CPC classification number: G06K15/1878 ,  G06K15/402

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a print device, a first backend communication portion, a second backend communication portion, and an inquiry management portion. The inquiry management portion transmits, when determining that transmission of a permission response is possible, the permission response to a digital frontend via the first backend communication portion. The second backend communication portion receives print data from the digital frontend. The print device executes print processing that is based on the print data when the print data is received from the digital frontend by the second backend communication portion.

公开(公告)号：US20240288817A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-29

申请号：US18582922

申请日：2024-02-21

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Nobuhiro FUKUMA

IPC: G03G15/00

CPC classification number: G03G15/6514 ,  G03G2215/00383 ,  G03G2215/00392 ,  G03G2215/00679

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a manual feed tray that is provided at an opening in a sidewall of an apparatus body of the image forming apparatus and opens or closes the opening by an opening/closing operation; a guide portion that supports movement of the manual feed tray based on the opening/closing operation between a first position where the manual feed tray is upright along the sidewall to close the opening and a second position where the manual feed tray inclines toward outside of the apparatus body to open the opening, and guides the manual feed tray in the second position from the opening to within the apparatus body to retract the manual feed tray within the apparatus body; a sheet feed mechanism that feeds a sheet on the retracted manual feed tray; and an image forming device that forms an image on the sheet fed from the manual feed.

公开(公告)号：US20240287334A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-29

申请号：US18172964

申请日：2023-02-22

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Satoshi SATO

IPC: C09D11/326 ,  C09D11/033 ,  C09D11/037 ,  C09D11/107

CPC classification number: C09D11/326 ,  C09D11/033 ,  C09D11/037 ,  C09D11/107

Abstract: An inkjet ink contains pigment particles and water. The pigment particles contain a pigment and a specific resin. The specific resin includes a first repeating unit derived from a specific monomer. The specific monomer is nonionic and has a group represented by general formula (A) or (B) below.




Of all repeating units included in the specific resin, the first repeating unit has a percentage content of at least 0.5% by mass and no greater than 11% by mass. In general formulas (A) and (B), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group with a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 5. n and m each represent, independently of one another, a number of at least 3 and no greater than 9. * represents a bond.

公开(公告)号：US20240286862A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-29

申请号：US18585312

申请日：2024-02-23

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Tadahisa KISHIMOTO ,  Koji MURATA

IPC: B65H31/36

CPC classification number: B65H31/36 ,  B65H2801/27

Abstract: A sheet post-processing device includes a discharge port, a discharge tray, a first sheet pressing member, a second sheet pressing member, and a holding member. The holding member has a first holding portion that holds the first sheet pressing member, and a second holding portion that holds the second sheet pressing member. The first holding portion selectively holds the first sheet pressing member at a first pressing position for pressing a sheet and a first retreat position retreated to above a discharge route. The second holding portion selectively holds the second sheet pressing member at a second pressing position for pressing the sheet and a second retreat position retreated to above the discharge route.

公开(公告)号：US20240255867A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-01

申请号：US18565738

申请日：2022-03-28

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Ryo YAMADA

IPC: G03G15/08 ,  B01D39/16 ,  G03G21/20

CPC classification number: G03G15/0891 ,  B01D39/16 ,  G03G15/0898 ,  G03G21/206

Abstract: A developing device (3a-3d) is provided with a development container (20), a first stirring conveyance member (25), a second stirring conveyance member (26), and a developer carrier (31). The development container (20) has a first conveyance chamber (21), a second conveyance chamber (22), and a communication portion (20). The first stirring conveyance member (25) includes a first rotation shaft (23a) and a first stirring blade (24a). The second stirring conveyance member (26) includes a second rotation shaft (23b) and a second stirring blade (24b). The developer carrier (31) is opposed to the second stirring conveyance member (26). The first rotation shaft (23a) includes, at least in a partial region in an axial direction of the first rotating shaft (23a), a tapered portion (36) of which a shaft diameter increases toward a downstream side in a developer conveyance direction in the first conveyance chamber (21).

公开(公告)号：US20240246785A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-25

申请号：US18415724

申请日：2024-01-18

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Takuya NISHIMURA ,  Seiichi SHIRASAKI ,  Yasunori UENO ,  Takehiko OKADA ,  Keisuke EGAWA ,  Yusuke TAKANO ,  Terumitsu NOSO

IPC: B65H9/10 ,  B65H39/10

CPC classification number: B65H9/101 ,  B65H39/10 ,  B65H2301/4222 ,  B65H2801/27

Abstract: When performing an alignment process on a sheet loaded on the processing tray in a state where a front end of the sheet is protruded from a discharge outlet above a discharge tray, the control unit performs a front end alignment process in which a pair of discharge tray cursors sandwich the front end of the sheet protruded above the discharge tray in the width direction, and a rear end alignment process in which the pair of processing tray cursors sandwich a rear end of the sheet on the processing tray in the width direction.

公开(公告)号：US12044986B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-23

申请号：US18247853

申请日：2021-10-05

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Masaki Kadota

IPC: G03G21/00 ,  G03G15/08 ,  G03G21/10

CPC classification number: G03G15/0891 ,  G03G15/0889 ,  G03G21/0017 ,  G03G21/0035 ,  G03G21/105 ,  G03G2221/1624

Abstract: A toner conveying device includes a toner conveying passage through which toner is conveyed, a conveying screw, and a brush member. The conveying screw includes a rotary shaft rotatably arranged inside the toner conveying passage and a helical blade formed on the outer circumferential face of the rotary shaft. The brush member has a number of brush bristles that swing while in contact with the outer circumferential face of the conveying screw and that are planted at a predetermined interval along the axial direction of the conveying screw. On the brush member, the blush bristles planted at one place are composed of one to three fibers, and the blush bristles are planted parallel to each other at a predetermined interval of 0.5- to 3 mm.