IMAGE FORMING DEVICE
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200379393A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-03

    申请号:US16874834

    申请日:2020-05-15

    摘要: An image forming device that forms an image on a medium, includes: a heater that heats the medium; a control unit that controls the heater; a first path that receives input voltage from an external power supply, converts the input voltage into desired voltage, and supplies the desired voltage to the control unit; a second path that divides the input voltage received by the first path and supplies the input voltage to the heater; a control element that is connected to the second path and controls ON/OFF switching of the heater according to control from the control unit; and a disconnection unit that disconnects the second path depending on condition of the input voltage.

    COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20200314261A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-01

    申请号:US16788223

    申请日:2020-02-11

    发明人: Takahiro TSUNO

    IPC分类号: H04N1/00 H04W4/80

    摘要: An image formation device according to one or more embodiments may be include: an IC tag communicable with a tag reader of the mobile terminal through an NFC connection therebetween; a storage storing therein a setting value information including an NFC setting of the image formation device; and a controller. The controller is configured with programs to perform operations comprising: when receiving, from the mobile terminal via the network, a transmission request of the setting value information of the image formation device, reading the setting value information from the storage of the image formation device and transmitting the setting value information to the mobile terminal; and when receiving via the network from the mobile terminal an activation instruction to activate an NFC function of the image formation device, activating the NFC function of the image formation device.

    PRINT CONTROL DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20200272370A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-27

    申请号:US16716740

    申请日:2019-12-17

    发明人: Suguru HAGIWARA

    IPC分类号: G06F3/12

    摘要: The information processing device 100 includes a control unit 105 that executes an application for processing a print object and a printer driver for controlling a printer 120, a display unit 102 that displays a screen, and an input unit 101 that receives an input of an instruction. When the control unit 105 receives an instruction to display a print setting screen for setting print settings of the printer 120 in the application through the input unit 101, the control unit 105 executes the printer driver and causes the display unit 102 to display a print setting screen in a modeless dialogue in which use of functions in the application is not restricted to setting print settings.

    DEVELOPER CONTAINER, IMAGE FORMING UNIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20200249592A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-06

    申请号:US16694127

    申请日:2019-11-25

    发明人: Atsushi KOBAYASHI

    IPC分类号: G03G15/08

    摘要: A developer container includes a body and a shutter member. The body has an opening and a containing part. The containing part is to contain a developer put into the containing part through the opening. The shutter member includes a tip portion in a first direction. The shutter member is slidable between a closing position at which the shutter member closes the opening and an open position at which the shutter member leaves the opening open. The shutter member slides in the first direction and thereby moves from the open position to the closing position. The tip portion includes a top surface and a pair of side surfaces. The top surface has inclination that causes a distance in a third direction from the opening to the top surface to decrease in a second direction. Spacing in a fourth direction between the side surfaces is narrowed in the second direction.

    Information processing system, terminal device, and information processing device that uses setting related information, which corresponds to manual item displayed at terminal device

    公开(公告)号:US10708449B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-07

    申请号:US15982732

    申请日:2018-05-17

    摘要: An information processing system includes a terminal device and an information processing device. The terminal device has a first display part displaying first explanatory information and first setting related information, a first communication part that supplies a first information identifier corresponding to the first explanatory information displayed by the first display part to the information processing device, and receives first information corresponding to the first information identifier, and a control part that causes the first display part to display the first setting related information based on the first information, and the information processing device has a second communication part that receives the first information identifier supplied from the terminal device, and supplies the first information corresponding to the first information identifier to the terminal device, and a generation part that generates the first information corresponding to the first information identifier based on the first information identifier received by the second communication part.

    Information processing apparatus, printer driver, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

    公开(公告)号:US10684802B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-16

    申请号:US16165203

    申请日:2018-10-19

    发明人: Keiichi Ogata

    IPC分类号: G06F3/12

    摘要: An information processing apparatus according an embodiment includes: a storing unit capable of storing one or more setting information each of which is set for executing image formation processing, wherein each setting information is associated with and stored with first apparatus information indicating a first configuration of the image formation apparatus for the corresponding setting information, the storing unit further being capable of storing second apparatus information indicating a second configuration of the image formation apparatus, which is a latest configuration of the image formation apparatus; and a processing unit that, when receiving an instruction to select one of the one or more setting information as actual setting, compares the first apparatus information associated with the selected setting information and the second apparatus information, and determines, based on the comparison result, to accept or reject to reflect the selected setting information to the actual setting.

    Image forming method and image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US10684573B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-16

    申请号:US16446807

    申请日:2019-06-20

    IPC分类号: G03G15/08

    摘要: An image forming method includes: placing developer on a medium in accordance with image data to form a developer image; and fixing the developer image to the medium while conveying the medium along a conveying direction. The image forming method further includes: determining, as a blocked region, a region of the developer image where no developer is placed and whose upstream side in the conveying direction is blocked by a developer region where the developer is placed; and forming at least one groove extending in the conveying direction in an upstream region of the developer image that is located upstream of the blocked region in the conveying direction and included in the developer region.

    Operation terminal, program, and printing system

    公开(公告)号:US10564908B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-18

    申请号:US16161688

    申请日:2018-10-16

    发明人: Shun Kouda

    IPC分类号: G06F3/12

    摘要: One of embodiments is an operation terminal connectable with a printing device. The operation terminal includes: a communication unit that communicates with the printing device; an input unit that accepts input of an instruction; and a control unit. The control unit is configured, when the input unit receives input of an instruction to execute a predetermined processing in which target data is generated other than an instruction to execute printing while the control unit is executing a preset function, to execute the predetermined processing and generate a printing job to cause the printing device to perform printing based on the target data generated by the predetermined processing.