Patents by Inventor Akihide Kawamura
Akihide Kawamura has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11629515Abstract: A booth that has an opening through which a user enters and exits the booth and a desk and a chair installed in a space surrounded by a floor and a side wall, the booth includes a movable sound insulation member that is installable to enclose the user in a case where the user is below a top portion of the booth while being in the booth.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Shu Watanabe, Kunichi Yamashita, Akihide Kawamura, Masamichi Kimura, Shigenaga Fujimura
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Publication number: 20230089328Abstract: A booth includes an internal space configured to be used by a user, a door which is controlled to unlock in an electric-powered manner when an information is detected based on a user operation, and a monitor screen which is used in order to project an image output from a device brought by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Shu WATANABE, Akihide KAWAMURA, Kunichi YAMASHITA, Akira TAKAHASHI, Yoshihiro SHIBANAI
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Patent number: 11542701Abstract: A booth includes a replaceable side wall that surrounds an internal space to be used by a user, and the side wall is provided with at least one entrance/exit door.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Shu Watanabe, Akihide Kawamura, Kunichi Yamashita, Akira Takahashi, Yoshihiro Shibanai
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Publication number: 20220243487Abstract: A booth that has an opening through which a user enters and exits the booth and a desk and a chair installed in a space surrounded by a floor and a side wall, the booth includes a movable sound insulation member that is installable to enclose the user in a case where the user is below a top portion of the booth while being in the booth.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2021Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Shu WATANABE, Kunichi YAMASHITA, Akihide KAWAMURA, Masamichi KIMURA, Shigenaga FUJIMURA
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Publication number: 20220188913Abstract: An information processing system that executes processing for an object reserved by a user includes a processor configured to determine possibility information about a possibility that a first user having reserved the object will actually use the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.Inventors: Akihide KAWAMURA, Kengo TOKUCHI
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Publication number: 20220047762Abstract: An information processing system includes a processor configured to: acquire reservation information, the reservation information being information about a reservation of a booth; and make a determination regarding an improvement of an air environment by an improvement mechanism that improves the air environment provided inside the booth, on a basis of the acquired reservation information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Shu WATANABE, Kunichi YAMASHITA, Kengo TOKUCHI, Masamichi KIMURA, Kota NAKAYAMA, Akihide KAWAMURA
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Publication number: 20210189714Abstract: A booth includes a replaceable side wall that surrounds an internal space to be used by a user, and the side wall is provided with at least one entrance/exit door.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2021Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Shu WATANABE, Akihide KAWAMURA, Kunichi YAMASHITA, Akira TAKAHASHI, Yoshihiro SHIBANAI
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Patent number: 10975564Abstract: A booth includes a replaceable side wall that surrounds an internal space to be used by a user, and the side wall is provided with at least one entrance/exit door.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Shu Watanabe, Akihide Kawamura, Kunichi Yamashita, Akira Takahashi, Yoshihiro Shibanai
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Publication number: 20200380424Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a recognition unit that recognizes arrival of a user at a reservable space, and a switch unit that, in a case where the user is allowed to use the reservable space, switches from a state of blocking usage of the reservable space by the user to a state of not blocking the usage of the reservable space.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2019Publication date: December 3, 2020Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Akihide KAWAMURA, Shu WATANABE, Kunichi YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20200018060Abstract: A booth includes a replaceable side wall that surrounds an internal space to be used by a user, and the side wall is provided with at least one entrance/exit door.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Shu WATANABE, Akihide KAWAMURA, Kunichi YAMASHITA, Akira TAKAHASHI, Yoshihiro SHIBANAI
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Patent number: 8854723Abstract: A display medium includes a first substrate that is transparent to light, a second substrate, a spacing member, and a particle dispersion liquid. The second substrate is provided to be opposite to the first substrate and has a plurality of electrodes placed at a predetermined interval. The spacing member (i) is placed between the first and second substrates at another interval different from the predetermined interval of the electrodes, (ii) has a first end portion on a first substrate side of the spacing member and a second end portion on a second substrate side of the spacing member. The first end portion is transparent to light. The second end portion has different transparency from the first end portion to reduces a reflection of light incident through the first substrate onto a first substrate side of the spacing member.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mamoru Fujita, Hideo Kobayashi, Masaaki Lawrence Araki, Takehito Hikichi, Motohiko Sakamaki, Akihide Kawamura
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Patent number: 8760388Abstract: A display medium includes: a pair of substrates; a spacing member that maintain a gap between the pair of substrates and has a first portion projecting in an intersecting direction, the intersecting direction intersecting a direction in which the pair of substrates face each other; and a holding layer that is provided on at least one of the pair of substrates such that the holding layer fills a space between the at least one of the pair of substrates and an end face of the spacing member, the holding layer covers the first portion from the end face of the spacing member, and the holding layer holds an end part of the spacing member in the direction in which the pair of substrates face each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2011Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Hiji, Akihide Kawamura, Yasufumi Suwabe
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Patent number: 8676093Abstract: A developing device includes a first developer containing chamber, a second developer containing chamber, a first inflow section, a second inflow section, a first conveyance member and a second conveyance member. The first inflow section allows the developer to flow from the second developer containing chamber into the first developer containing chamber. The second inflow section allows the developer to flow from the first developer containing chamber into the second developer containing chamber. The first conveyance member conveys the developer contained in the first developer containing chamber in a first developer conveyance direction. The second conveyance member conveys the developer contained in the second developer containing chamber in a second developer conveyance direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2010Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Sakamoto, Kei Hirata, Akihide Kawamura, Naoya Iwata
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Patent number: 8630034Abstract: A display medium of the present invention includes first and second substrates, a spacing member and a particle dispersion liquid. The first substrate is transparent to light. The second substrate is opposite to the first substrate and has plural electrodes placed at an interval. The second substrate has a difference between reflectivity of the electrode portions and reflectivity of plural boundary portions between the electrodes with respect to light incident from the first substrate side. The difference is 12 percentage points or less. The spacing member is placed between the first and second substrates at another interval, is transparent to light, and keeps a gap between the first and second substrates. The particle dispersion liquid is filled between the first and second substrates, and includes particles moving in a direction of an electric field formed between the first and second substrates and a dispersion medium.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2012Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihide Kawamura, Hideo Kobayashi, Masaaki Araki, Takehito Hikichi, Mamoru Fujita, Motohiko Sakamaki
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Publication number: 20130242375Abstract: A display medium includes a first substrate that is transparent to light, a second substrate, a spacing member, and a particle dispersion liquid. The second substrate is provided to be opposite to the first substrate and has a plurality of electrodes placed at a predetermined interval. The spacing member (i) is placed between the first and second substrates at another interval different from the predetermined interval of the electrodes, (ii) has a first end portion on a first substrate side of the spacing member and a second end portion on a second substrate side of the spacing member. The first end portion is transparent to light. The second end portion has different transparency from the first end portion to reduces a reflection of light incident through the first substrate onto a first substrate side of the spacing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2012Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Mamoru FUJITA, Hideo KOBAYASHI, Masaaki ARAKI, Takehito HIKICHI, Motohiko SAKAMAKI, Akihide KAWAMURA
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Publication number: 20130242374Abstract: A display medium of the present invention includes first and second substrates, a spacing member and a particle dispersion liquid. The first substrate is transparent to light. The second substrate is opposite to the first substrate and has plural electrodes placed at an interval. The second substrate has a difference between reflectivity of the electrode portions and reflectivity of plural boundary portions between the electrodes with respect to light incident from the first substrate side. The difference is 12 percentage points or less. The spacing member is placed between the first and second substrates at another interval, is transparent to light, and keeps a gap between the first and second substrates. The particle dispersion liquid is filled between the first and second substrates, and includes particles moving in a direction of an electric field formed between the first and second substrates and a dispersion medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2012Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Akihide KAWAMURA, Hideo KOBAYASHI, Masaaki ARAKI, Takehito HIKICHI, Mamoru FUJITA, Motohiko SAKAMAKI
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Patent number: 8526101Abstract: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a display medium, including preparing a first substrate on which a gap retaining member that retains a gap between substrates is disposed in a protruded form; applying an adhesive to a top surface of the gap retaining member; disposing a particle dispersion liquid on an area surrounded by the first substrate and the gap retaining member; and adhering the first substrate and a second substrate together via the gap retaining member, by contacting the second substrate with the adhesive applied to the top surface of the gap retaining member and drying the solvent of the adhesive so as to adhere the second substrate to the top surface of the gap retaining member by the adhesive component of the adhesive. The display medium and a display apparatus including the display medium and an electrical field-generating unit are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2011Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihide Kawamura, Hideo Kobayashi, Takehito Hikichi, Masaaki Araki, Mamoru Fujita, Motohiko Sakamaki
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Patent number: 8170447Abstract: The image forming apparatus is provided with: an image carrier; an exposure member that exposes the image carrier and forms an electrostatic latent image on the image carrier; a developing member that develops the electrostatic latent image formed on the image carrier; and a contact-retracting unit that rotates the developing member taking a predetermined position as the rotational center, and brings the developing member in contact with or proximity to the image carrier or retracts the developing member from the image carrier.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2008Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keisuke Kubo, Kei Hirata, Tomio Onuki, Takeshi Okoshi, Toshikazu Tsumita, Taiyou Uehara, Takashi Sakamoto, Naoya Iwata, Hirohisa Kohno, Akihide Kawamura, Kazunori Koshimori
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Patent number: 8135312Abstract: There is provided a development apparatus including: a first developer storage container and a second developer storage container that store developer, having a first a and second openings, respectively; a first transport member provided within the first developer storage container, and that causes the developer to move to the second developer storage container via the first opening; a second transport member provided within the second developer storage container, and that causes the developer to move to the first developer storage container via the second opening; a developer holding member that performs development by causing the developer to move to a position facing an image holding body on which a latent image is formed; and a moving member provided so as to fit between an inner wall face of the second developer storage container and an outer edge of the second transport member.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2008Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., LtdInventors: Hirohisa Kohno, Kazunori Koshimori, Kei Hirata, Akihide Kawamura, Naoya Iwata, Keisuke Kubo, Takashi Sakamoto, Taiyou Uehara, Toshikazu Tsumita, Takeshi Okoshi, Tomio Onuki
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Publication number: 20120044228Abstract: A display medium includes: a pair of substrates; a spacing member that maintain a gap between the pair of substrates and has a first portion projecting in an intersecting direction, the intersecting direction intersecting a direction in which the pair of substrates face each other; and a holding layer that is provided on at least one of the pair of substrates such that the holding layer fills a space between the at least one of the pair of substrates and an end face of the spacing member, the holding layer covers the first portion from the end face of the spacing member, and the holding layer holds an end part of the spacing member in the direction in which the pair of substrates face each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2011Publication date: February 23, 2012Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki Hiji, Akihide Kawamura, Yasufumi Suwabe