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公开(公告)号:US12088767B2
公开(公告)日:2024-09-10
申请号:US17994002
申请日:2022-11-25
Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
Inventor: Tomoaki Yoshioka
CPC classification number: H04N1/00559 , G03G15/0136 , G03G15/1625 , G03G15/165 , G03G15/166 , G03G15/6529 , G03G15/201 , G03G2215/00371 , G03G2215/00379 , G03G2215/00523 , G03G2215/00708 , G03G2215/00919 , G03G2215/1623 , H04N2201/00
Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a transport unit, a transfer unit and a support unit. The transport unit transports a recording medium. The transfer unit transfers an image formed with particles onto an image formation surface of the recording medium transported by the transport unit by an electric field formed between the transfer unit and the image formation surface by making contact with the image formation surface. The support unit supports the recording medium, is transported to the transfer unit together with the recording medium by the transport unit, and is not directly conductive with the transfer unit.
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公开(公告)号:US12050421B2
公开(公告)日:2024-07-30
申请号:US17989698
申请日:2022-11-18
Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
Inventor: Tomoaki Yoshioka
CPC classification number: G03G15/205 , B41J3/407 , B41M1/26 , B41M5/0041 , G03G15/6591 , B41P2217/56
Abstract: An image forming system includes: a transporter that transports an object; a transfer unit that transfers an image onto the object transported by the transporter; a fixing unit that fixes, onto the object, the image transferred by the transfer unit; and a processor configured to: in a first mode, exert control to obtain the state in which the fixing unit enables an image to be fixed; and, in a second mode, exert control to obtain the state in which the fixing unit does not fix an image.
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公开(公告)号:US11966186B2
公开(公告)日:2024-04-23
申请号:US17974461
申请日:2022-10-26
Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
Inventor: Tomoaki Yoshioka
CPC classification number: G03G15/657 , G03G15/04
Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a transport unit that transports a recording medium whose image formation surface has electric conductivity; a transfer unit that makes contact with the image formation surface of the recording medium transported by the transport unit and transfers an image formed with particles onto the image formation surface by an electric field formed between the transfer unit and the image formation surface; and a support unit that has electric conductivity, supports the recording medium so as to be conductive with the image formation surface of the recording medium, and is transported to the transfer unit together with the recording medium by the transport unit.
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公开(公告)号:US11878891B2
公开(公告)日:2024-01-23
申请号:US17547475
申请日:2021-12-10
Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
Inventor: Kazuki Kishi , Tomoaki Yoshioka , Kazuyoshi Hagiwara , Yoko Miyamoto , Toshiaki Baba , Tomohiro Wada , Yosuke Tsutsumi
CPC classification number: B65H5/025 , B65H5/085 , G03G15/0131 , G03G15/2028 , G03G15/65 , G03G15/657 , G03G15/6529 , G03G15/6558 , G03G21/168 , G03G21/1685 , G03G2215/00409 , G03G2215/00413 , G03G2215/00687
Abstract: A cylinder member includes: a cylinder body having a cross section and including a dent portion; a sheet member wrapped around the cylinder body and including a metal layer contacting the cylinder body and an outer layer; a first attachment member on a sheet member first end portion and removably attached to the dent portion; a second attachment member on a metal layer end portion protruding from the outer layer in the circumferential direction at a sheet member second end portion, the second attachment member being removably attached to the dent portion; a tension-applying mechanism pulling the second attachment member in a dent portion depth direction to apply tension to the metal layer; a projection on one of the second attachment member and metal layer end portion; and a fitting portion on other one of the second attachment member and the metal layer end portion and fitted to the projection.
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公开(公告)号:US11835889B2
公开(公告)日:2023-12-05
申请号:US17715242
申请日:2022-04-07
Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
Inventor: Yoko Miyamoto , Takashi Hoshino , Shinji Okuyama , Tomoaki Yoshioka , Toshiaki Baba , Chihiro Iijima
CPC classification number: G03G15/1615 , G03G15/0131 , G03G15/2007 , G03G15/55 , G03G15/70
Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a colorant image former; an image holder configured to hold a colorant image formed by the colorant image former and to be rotationally driven; a transfer member configured to transfer the colorant image onto a recording medium, which is transported from an upstream side, by sandwiching the recording medium between the transfer member and the image holder, and rotationally driving the transfer member to transport the recording medium to a downstream side; and a contact-and-separation mechanism configured to relatively contact or separate the image holder and the transfer member, in which, in response to an abnormality being detected, the image forming apparatus operates in a mode in which the contact-and-separation mechanism relatively separates the image holder and the transfer member, and then rotational driving of the transfer member is stopped after rotational driving of the image holder is stopped.
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公开(公告)号:US11656563B2
公开(公告)日:2023-05-23
申请号:US17552071
申请日:2021-12-15
Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
Inventor: Yoko Miyamoto , Hirotaka Tanaka , Kazuyoshi Hagiwara , Kei Tanaka , Tomoaki Yoshioka , Toshiaki Baba , Koichiro Yuasa
CPC classification number: G03G15/162 , G03G15/0131 , G03G15/165 , G03G15/167 , G03G15/1655 , G03G15/1685 , G03G15/657 , G03G15/6529 , G03G15/6558 , G03G21/168 , G03G2215/00379 , G03G2215/00409 , G03G2215/00413
Abstract: A jacket includes: a first layer that is on a cylinder body side when the jacket is attached to a rotating cylinder body; and a second layer that is a layer located on a side opposite to the cylinder body with respect to the first layer, has a hardness lower than that of the first layer, and does not exist at a position where at least one of end edges of the cylinder body in a rotation axis direction is located inward of the first layer in the rotation axis direction.
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公开(公告)号:US20220097993A1
公开(公告)日:2022-03-31
申请号:US17326522
申请日:2021-05-21
Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
Inventor: Toshiaki BABA , Tomoaki Yoshioka , Yoko Miyamoto , Kazuki Kishi , Yosuke Tsutsumi
IPC: B65H27/00
Abstract: A method for manufacturing a cylindrical member includes: fixing an end portion of an elastic body to an end portion, in a circumferential direction, of a recess provided in a cylindrical body having a substantially circular shape in cross section, the recess extending along an axial direction of the cylindrical body; and winding the elastic body around the cylindrical body while pressing the elastic body using a pressing member.
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公开(公告)号:US12116227B2
公开(公告)日:2024-10-15
申请号:US17964048
申请日:2022-10-12
Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
Inventor: Tomohiro Wada , Tomoaki Yoshioka , Satoshi Shigezaki , Yoko Miyamoto , Toshiaki Baba , Haruka Kobayashi , Kazuyoshi Hagiwara , Kazuki Kishi
CPC classification number: B65H29/06 , B41F21/08 , B65H5/085 , B65H29/04 , B65H29/041 , B65H29/042 , B65H2404/521 , B65H2801/03
Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a holding body configured to hold a formed image; a conveyance unit configured to convey a recording medium with a leading end of the recording medium gripped by a gripping portion; and a transfer body including a recessed portion that accommodates the gripping portion and is provided along a direction substantially orthogonal to a rotational direction, configured to sandwich the recording medium conveyed by the conveyance unit between the transfer body and the holding body to transfer an image on the holding body to the recording medium conveyed by the conveyance unit, and including a slope surface provided at a leading end of a portion of an outer circumference not including a portion where the recessed portion is provided, the leading end being on a front end side in the rotational direction, a distance from the slope surface to a rotational center becoming larger toward a downstream side in the rotational direction.
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公开(公告)号:US12061427B2
公开(公告)日:2024-08-13
申请号:US17986860
申请日:2022-11-14
Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
Inventor: Tetsuro Kodera , Tomoaki Yoshioka , Takayuki Yamashita
CPC classification number: G03G15/2039 , G03G15/2017 , G03G15/6529
Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a transport unit that transports an object along a transport path; a transfer unit that transfers an image onto the object on the transport path; and a fixing unit that has a heat source for increasing a temperature inside the fixing unit, into which the object onto which the image has been transferred is carried along the transport path, and includes a first opening and closing member that opens a carry-in opening when the object is carried into the fixing unit and closes the carry-in opening after the object is carried into the fixing unit.
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公开(公告)号:US12036787B2
公开(公告)日:2024-07-16
申请号:US17592793
申请日:2022-02-04
Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
Inventor: Tomoaki Yoshioka , Mitsuaki Kuroda
CPC classification number: B41J11/04 , B41J11/007
Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a transfer cylinder that rotates; a rotating member that is coaxial with the transfer cylinder and rotates integrally with the transfer cylinder; a circulating member that is provided with a holding part that holds a front end portion of a recording medium, is suspended around the rotating member, and transports the recording medium by circulating as the rotating member rotates; and a transfer unit that has a transfer belt that sandwiches the recording medium transported by the circulating member at a nip position together with the transfer cylinder so that an image is transferred onto the recording medium. The nip position is located on one side relative to a center of the transfer unit in a horizontal direction when viewed from an axial direction of the rotating member, and a center of mass of the transfer unit is located on a nip position side relative to the center in the horizontal direction.
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