IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE AND OVERCURRENT DETECTION METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20240223121A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-04

    申请号:US18546654

    申请日:2022-02-16

    Inventor: Shogo YONEDA

    CPC classification number: H02P29/027 G03G15/0105 G03G15/80 H02P4/00

    Abstract: An image formation device includes a plurality of motors, an overcurrent detection portion, a load application portion, and a specification portion. The plurality of motors each include an output shaft. The overcurrent detection portion detects an overcurrent with respect to a resultant current including currents flowing through the plurality of motors. The load application portion applies, while the plurality of motors are being rotated, a load to the output shaft of at least some of the plurality of motors. The load applied by the load application portion is a load for causing fluctuation components that enables the currents of the plurality of motors to be distinguished from one another to be generated in the resultant current. The specification portion specifies, when the overcurrent is detected, a motor that is a cause of the overcurrent from among the plurality of motors based on the resultant current.

    CAP UNIT
    82.
    发明公开
    CAP UNIT 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240208227A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-27

    申请号:US18391094

    申请日:2023-12-20

    Inventor: Takashi SOMETE

    CPC classification number: B41J2/16552 B41J2002/16555

    Abstract: A cap unit includes a cap, a tank, a first pipe, a second pipe, a pump, and a vent port. The cap is attached to and detached from a nozzle surface of an inkjet head. The tank stores humidifying liquid. The first pipe and the second pipe connect the cap and the tank. The pump is provided in the first pipe and pumping air in the tank into the cap. The vent port is provided in the cap.

    METHODS AND PRINTING SYSTEM FOR PEER-TO-PEER OUTPUT MANAGEMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20240192906A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-13

    申请号:US18586734

    申请日:2024-02-26

    CPC classification number: G06F3/1291 G06F3/1203 G06F3/1226 G06F3/1261

    Abstract: A peer-to-peer network of printing devices is configured to share printing device information, such as job queue status, configuration information, and resource information for automated load balancing, capability matching, failover, and print splitting operations. A digital front end (DFE) of a printing device establishes connections with the DFEs of other printing devices to manage output within the peer-to-peer network in an automated manner. When a print job is received at a DFE for a printing device, it is evaluated to determine how to best manage the output for the print job.

    TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER
    86.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240184227A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-06

    申请号:US18576301

    申请日:2022-03-31

    CPC classification number: G03G9/1139 G03G9/0819 G03G9/09708 G03G9/1135

    Abstract: In a two-component developer, toner particles include toner mother particles and external additive particles including strontium titanate particles. A first percentage content being a percentage content of the strontium titanate particles to the mass of the toner mother particles is 0.30-0.90% by mass. The carrier particles include carrier cores and coat layers. The coat layers contain barium titanate particles and a coating resin including a silicone resin. The barium titanate particles have a number average primary particle diameter of 100-500 nm. A second percentage content being a percentage content of the coat layers to the mass of the carrier cores is 2.0-4.0% by mass. A third percentage content being a percentage content of the barium titanate to the mass of the coating resin satisfies formula (1) “(X×10)≤Z≤45.0”. In formula (1), X represents the first percentage content and Z represents the third percentage content.

    INKJET INK AND INJKET INK PRODUCTION METHOD
    89.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240174873A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-30

    申请号:US18516918

    申请日:2023-11-21

    Inventor: Seishi OJIMA

    CPC classification number: C09D11/322 C09D11/104

    Abstract: An inkjet ink contains pigment particles and an aqueous medium. The pigment particles contain a pigment and a resin. The resin has a mass ratio to the pigment in the pigment particles of at least 1.40 and no greater than 3.10. The resin includes a polyester resin. The inkjet ink does not contain free resin dispersed in the aqueous medium or contains the free resin at a rate to the total amount of the free resin and the resin contained in the pigment particles of greater than 0.00% by mass and no greater than 3.00% by mass.

    SHEET STOP MECHANISM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20240174475A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-30

    申请号:US18517500

    申请日:2023-11-22

    Inventor: Hung Phi Le

    CPC classification number: B65H31/02 B65H2405/354

    Abstract: A first operation restriction portion forms a first step between the first operation restriction portion and a first operation portion. A second operation restriction portion forms a second step between the second operation restriction portion and a second operation portion. A first locking portion releases locking of a locked portion when a first push of pushing the first operation portion or a second push of pushing the second operation portion is performed. When the sheet stopper is rotated in response to the first push, a second locking portion stops the sheet stopper in a first upright state. When the sheet stopper is rotated in response to the second push, the second locking portion allows the sheet stopper to rotate beyond the first upright state. A third locking portion stops the sheet stopper in a second upright state.

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