This three-dimensional object manufacturing method involves: a step for forming an adhesive area on part of a sheet-form print medium by means of electrophotographic method using a pressurized phase transition resin toner that produces adhesiveness by phase transition due to pressure; and a step for forming a three-dimension portion by folding part of the print medium and adhering the portion of the print medium where the adhesive area was formed onto another portion of the print medium.
B65H 37/04 - Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating devices for performing specified auxiliary operations for securing together articles or webs, e.g. by adhesive, stitching, or stapling
B65H 37/06 - Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating devices for performing specified auxiliary operations for folding
G03G 15/22 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern involving the combination of more than one step according to groups
B42D 15/02 - Postcards; Greeting, menu, business or like cards; Letter cards or letter-sheets
An electrostatic charge image developing toner which contains toner particles containing a binding resin, wherein: D1(90), D50(90), D1(150) and D50(150) are each 0.5-2.5, inclusive, if the loss tangent tanδ at a strain of 1% and a temperature of 90°C is D1(90), the loss tangent tanδ at a strain of 50% and a temperature of 90°C is D50(90), the loss tangent tanδ at a strain of 1% and a temperature of 150°C is D1(150), and the loss tangent tanδ at a strain of 50% and a temperature of 150°C is D50(150) when measuring the dynamic viscoelasticity of the electrostatic charge image developing toner; the value of D50(150)-D1(150) is less than 1.5; the value of D50(90)-D1(90) is less than 1.0; the toner particles also contain resin particles; and the number-average molecular weight of the tetrahydrofuran soluble portion in the toner particles is 5,000-15,000, inclusive.
This light-emitting component is provided with a substrate and a light-emitting element that is provided on the substrate and emits light in a direction intersecting the substrate. The light-emitting element has a thyristor and an opening that is formed in the thyristor and emits light. An inner surface of the opening is covered by a light-blocking body that suppresses transmission of light.
This detection device (1) comprises a light-emitting element array (20) comprising a plurality of light-emitting elements, a light-receiving element array (5) comprising a plurality of light-receiving elements for receiving light that has been reflected after being emitted onto an object to be detected from the light-emitting element array, a drive unit (50) for driving the light-emitting elements, and a detection unit (8) for detecting the object to be detected by controlling at least one from among the timing of the supply of a drive current to the light-emitting elements to emit light and the light reception timing of the light-receiving elements such that even if the arrangement of the light-emitting elements to emit light changes, the variation in the amount of time from the start of light emission from the light-emitting elements to emit light to the time when the light-receiving elements receive light falls within a predetermined range. When an object to be detected is detected through the detection of light that has been reflected after being emitted onto the object to be detected from a light-emitting element array comprising a plurality of light-emitting elements, this invention makes it possible to, relative to a case in which the influence of variation in the arrangement of the light-emitting elements to emit light is not taken into consideration, suppress the influence of light-emission-rise-characteristic variation even if the arrangement of the light-emitting elements to emit light changes.
This toner cartridge comprises: a new toner storage part that stores new toner; a waste toner storage part that is disposed on the -H side of the new toner storage part and stores waste toner; a supply part that is provided in the new toner storage part and connects the new toner storage part to the outside; and a hole part that is provided at a +H-side end of the waste toner storage part and connects the waste toner storage part to the outside. A wall located at a position overlapping the hole part in the vertical direction of the device within a +W-side wall of the waste toner storage part has a curved surface part at least partially protruding to the +W side of the waste toner storage part.
This light emitting device is provided with, on the same substrate: a light emitting element; a switch element that is connected in series with one electrode of the light emitting element and drives the light emitting element; a capacitive element that is connected in parallel with the light emitting element and discharges stored charge to the light emitting element; and a resistive element provided between the capacitive element and a power source that charges the capacitive element.
This developer storage container comprises a conveyance part which conveys a developer in a first storage part to the outside, and a transmission receiving part to which driving is transmitted from a driving part of a main body of an image forming apparatus and which transmits the driving to the conveyance part. The transmission receiving part is disposed in a state of having a section exposed to the outside from one end surface in the vertical direction of each of the first storage part and a second storage part, and the exposed section abuts on the driving part.
In this developer storage container, a second rotation-stopped part with a longer distance to a transmission receiving part than a first rotation-stopped part is provided. The first rotation-stopped part and the second rotation-stopped part are in contact with a first rotation-stopping part and a second rotation-stopping part of a main body of an image forming apparatus, and a spatial clearance between the first rotation-stopped part and the first rotation-stopping part is smaller than a spatial clearance between the second rotation-stopped part and the second rotation-stopping part.
This detection device comprises: a transport unit with which transport of a medium having a first image formed thereon is stopped, and after the stopped state of the medium, the transport of the medium is resumed toward an image formation unit that forms a second image on the medium; and a detection unit which detects an end of the medium during the stopped state.
B65H 7/14 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors by photoelectric feelers or detectors
A collation device according to the present invention comprises a processor. The processor acquires a plurality of captured images where an inspection image, which is a collation target, has been captured by changing the radiation direction of light radiated onto the inspection image. After adjusting the positional relationship of a camera, light source, and image so as to coincide with the positional relationship of the camera capturing the inspection image at the capturing time of the inspection image, the light source radiating light onto the inspection image, and the inspection image itself, the processor delivers notification of a collation result for the inspection image and a collation image according the degree of similarity between a plurality of registered images obtained by capturing the collation image in advance by changing the radiation direction of light radiated onto the collation image, whose appearance changes according to the radiation direction of light, and the inspection image included in each of the aforementioned captured images.
This imaging control device comprises: a region division unit (50) that divides a captured image into a plurality of regions; a luminance value calculation unit (52) that calculates an average luminance value for each region divided by the region division unit (50); a region identification unit (54) that identifies regions for which the average luminance value calculated by the luminance value calculation unit (52) is greater than or equal to a pre-set threshold value; a photometry range determination unit (56) that identifies a region identified by the identification unit (54) to be a new photometry range when the average luminance value of the region identified by the region identification unit (54) is greater than or equal to the threshold value for a period which is not less than a first prescribed time but less than a second prescribed time; and a signal processing unit (58) that performs automatic imaging control with respect to the new photometry range determined by the photometry range determination unit (56).
G03G 21/16 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements
G03G 15/16 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for transferring a pattern to a second base of a toner pattern, e.g. a powder pattern
G03G 15/20 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for fixing, e.g. by using heat
This light emission device 40 has: a substrate 42 which extends in a first direction; a light emission part 44 in which a plurality of light sources 64 that are disposed along the first direction are supported on a supporter 60 comprising a metal block extending in the first direction; a spacer 56 which is sandwiched between the substrate 42 and the light emission part 44 in the optical axis direction of the light sources 64; and a fastening member 58 that fixes the light emission part 44 to the substrate 42 such that a compressive load is applied to the spacer 56.
B41J 2/447 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using arrays of radiation sources
B41J 2/45 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using arrays of radiation sources using light-emitting diode arrays
B41J 2/455 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using arrays of radiation sources using laser arrays
G03G 21/16 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements
This light-emitting device comprises: a first light-emitting unit that extends in one direction and that has a first emission surface for emitting light and is disposed in the one direction; a second light-emitting unit that is disposed in the one direction opposing the first light-emitting unit, that extends in the one direction, and that has a second emission surface for emitting light and is disposed along the one direction; a first cleaning unit that is able to move in the one direction and the opposite direction thereto and cleans the first emission surface due to the movement; a second cleaning unit that is able to move in the one direction and the opposite direction thereto and cleans the second emission surface due to the movement; and transmitting units that extend in the one direction from the first cleaning unit and the second cleaning unit and transmit, to the first cleaning unit and the second cleaning, a movement force for causing the first cleaning unit and the second cleaning unit to move.
B41J 2/447 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using arrays of radiation sources
B41J 2/45 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using arrays of radiation sources using light-emitting diode arrays
B41J 2/455 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using arrays of radiation sources using laser arrays
G03G 21/00 - Arrangements not provided for by groups , e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge
G03G 15/04 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for exposing, i.e. imagewise exposure by optically projecting the original image on a photoconductive recording material
This light-emitting device comprises: a light-emitting part extending in one direction; an emission surface that is disposed in the light-emitting part in the one direction and emits light in a light-emitting direction crossing the one direction; a base body that is disposed in the light-emitting part on the opposite side to the one direction and is provided such that the light-emitting part can be detachable; and a cleaning mechanism having a cleaning part for cleaning the emission surface by moving in the one direction, the cleaning mechanism allowing the light-emitting part to be detached from the base body in a state in which at least a portion of the cleaning mechanism remains in a portion other than the light-emitting part.
B41J 2/447 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using arrays of radiation sources
B41J 2/45 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using arrays of radiation sources using light-emitting diode arrays
B41J 2/455 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using arrays of radiation sources using laser arrays
G03G 15/04 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for exposing, i.e. imagewise exposure by optically projecting the original image on a photoconductive recording material
H04N 1/036 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details thereof - Details of scanning heads for picture-information reproduction for optical reproduction
An exposure device 40 serving as one example of a light-emitting device has: a base 42 that is formed from a metal block extending in one direction; a plurality of light-emitting parts 44 which are provided, offset in the one direction, to a surface 42A side of the base 42, and in each of which a plurality of light sources 64 positioned along the one direction are supported by a support body 60 extending in the one direction; and a handle part 90 that is provided further to a lower side than a surface 42B of the base 42, and can be held by an operator when the base 42 has been placed on a flat surface.
B41J 2/447 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using arrays of radiation sources
B41J 2/45 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using arrays of radiation sources using light-emitting diode arrays
B41J 2/455 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using arrays of radiation sources using laser arrays
G03G 15/04 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for exposing, i.e. imagewise exposure by optically projecting the original image on a photoconductive recording material
A light-emitting device 40 has a base 42 constituted of a metal block extending in one direction, a plurality of light-emitting units 44 which are positioned so as to be offset in one direction on a surface-side of the base 42 and in which a plurality of light sources are supported along the one direction on a support body 60 extending in the one direction, and a side cover 52 that is provided at the end side in a direction intersecting the one direction of the base 422, that is positioned to the side of the light-emitting units 44 along the one direction, and that protects the plurality of light-emitting units 44 from the outer side.
B41J 2/447 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using arrays of radiation sources
B41J 2/45 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using arrays of radiation sources using light-emitting diode arrays
H01L 33/00 - SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS - Details thereof
H01S 5/40 - Arrangement of two or more semiconductor lasers, not provided for in groups
An exposure device 40 includes: a base body 42 that extends in one direction; a plurality of light-emitting parts 44 that are disposed on the main surface side of the base body 42 as offset in a direction intersecting the one direction, and in each of which a plurality of light sources are supported along the one direction by a support body 60 extending in the one direction; and drive substrates 72 that respectively drive the light-emitting parts 44, and are provided extending along the one direction to the inner side parts of the plurality of light-emitting parts 44 in a direction intersecting the one direction of the base body 42.
B41J 2/447 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using arrays of radiation sources
B41J 2/45 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using arrays of radiation sources using light-emitting diode arrays
B41J 2/455 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using arrays of radiation sources using laser arrays
A light-emitting device comprising: a first light-emitting part that extends in one direction, and has a first emission surface which is disposed along the one direction and from which light is emitted; a second light-emitting part that is disposed on a side in the one direction of the first light-emitting part, extends in the one direction, and has a second emission surface which is disposed along the one direction and from which light is emitted; a cleaning part that is capable of moving in the one direction and the opposite direction thereto, and cleans the first emission surface due to the movement; a transfer part that extends in the one direction from the cleaning part, and transfers, to the cleaning part, a movement force that forces the cleaning part to move; and an extension part that extends in the one direction from the transfer part to form an extension of the transfer part, wherein when the cleaning part is located at a furthest position in said opposite direction, an end thereof in the one direction is disposed in the one direction away from a middle point between an end in the one direction of the first light-emitting part and an end in the one direction of the second light-emitting part.
B41J 2/447 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using arrays of radiation sources
B41J 2/45 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using arrays of radiation sources using light-emitting diode arrays
B41J 2/455 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using arrays of radiation sources using laser arrays
G03G 21/00 - Arrangements not provided for by groups , e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge
G03G 15/04 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for exposing, i.e. imagewise exposure by optically projecting the original image on a photoconductive recording material
A light-emitting device 40 includes: a base body 42 that extends in one direction and has openings 132A; a plurality of light-emitting parts 44 that are disposed on a main surface 42A side of the base body 42 as offset in the one direction, each light-emitting part 44 being provided with a support body 60 that extends in the one direction and a plurality of light sources 64 disposed along the one direction on the support body 60; and an air supply device 130 that blows air toward the light-emitting parts 44 via the openings 132A.
B41J 2/447 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using arrays of radiation sources
B41J 2/45 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using arrays of radiation sources using light-emitting diode arrays
B41J 2/455 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using arrays of radiation sources using laser arrays
G03G 15/04 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for exposing, i.e. imagewise exposure by optically projecting the original image on a photoconductive recording material
H04N 1/00 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details thereof
H04N 1/036 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details thereof - Details of scanning heads for picture-information reproduction for optical reproduction
This image forming device comprises: an image holding unit that holds a color material image including an adjustment image; a transfer unit having a transfer region in which a holding unit that holds a recording medium rotates so as to pass a recessed section provided in an outer peripheral surface, and the color material image is transferred from the image holding unit to the record medium; a transport unit that causes the recording medium to pass the transfer region of the transfer unit while being held by the holding unit; and a shield unit that covers the recessed section of the transfer unit to suppress color materials that constitute the color material image from infiltrating into the recessed section.
G03G 21/16 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements
G03G 15/16 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for transferring a pattern to a second base of a toner pattern, e.g. a powder pattern
This image forming device is provided with: an image retention unit that retains a color material image including an adjustment image; a transfer unit that has a transfer region in which the color material image is transferred onto the recording medium from the image retention unit; an image forming mechanism that forms the adjustment image in the image retention unit; and a conveyance unit that causes the recording medium to pass through the transfer region of the transfer unit while being retained by the retention unit.
G03G 21/00 - Arrangements not provided for by groups , e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge
G03G 21/16 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements
G03G 15/16 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for transferring a pattern to a second base of a toner pattern, e.g. a powder pattern
This body member includes: a body that has a substantially cylindrical shape and that has a recessed section along the axial direction; a sheet member that is wrapped around the body; a movable member that retains circumferential-direction ends of the sheet member, and that can move along the depth direction of the recessed section; and a fixing member for fixing the moveable member to the body. The body member also includes: an adjustment mechanism for adjusting the tension of the sheet member; and a positioning member configured such that when the moveable member is fixed by the fixing member, the moveable member is positioned so that the same does not move in the circumferential direction of the body.
B41F 27/12 - Devices for attaching printing elements or formes to supports for attaching flexible printing formes
G03G 21/16 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements
G03G 15/16 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for transferring a pattern to a second base of a toner pattern, e.g. a powder pattern
This image forming device is provided with: a color material image forming unit; an image holding body that holds a color material image formed by the color material image forming unit and that is driven to rotate; a transfer member that sandwiches a recording medium conveyed from the upstream side between the transfer member and the image holding body and is driven to rotate so as to convey the recording medium to the downstream side and that transfers the color material image to the recording medium; and a contact/separation mechanism that causes relative contact/separation between the image holding body and the transfer member. The image forming device is configured to, if an abnormality has been detected, perform operation in a mode where, after the contact/separation mechanism causes the image holding body and the transfer member to be relatively separated from each other, the rotational driving of the image holding body has been stopped and thereafter the rotational driving of the transfer member is stopped.
G03G 21/00 - Arrangements not provided for by groups , e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge
G03G 15/16 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for transferring a pattern to a second base of a toner pattern, e.g. a powder pattern
G03G 15/20 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for fixing, e.g. by using heat
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