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).

  • Patent number: 11629515
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shu Watanabe, Kunichi Yamashita, Akihide Kawamura, Masamichi Kimura, Shigenaga Fujimura
  • Publication number: 20230089328
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shu WATANABE, Akihide KAWAMURA, Kunichi YAMASHITA, Akira TAKAHASHI, Yoshihiro SHIBANAI
  • Patent number: 11542701
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shu Watanabe, Akihide Kawamura, Kunichi Yamashita, Akira Takahashi, Yoshihiro Shibanai
  • Publication number: 20220243487
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shu WATANABE, Kunichi YAMASHITA, Akihide KAWAMURA, Masamichi KIMURA, Shigenaga FUJIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220188913
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Akihide KAWAMURA, Kengo TOKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220047762
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shu WATANABE, Kunichi YAMASHITA, Kengo TOKUCHI, Masamichi KIMURA, Kota NAKAYAMA, Akihide KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210189714
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shu WATANABE, Akihide KAWAMURA, Kunichi YAMASHITA, Akira TAKAHASHI, Yoshihiro SHIBANAI
  • Patent number: 10975564
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shu Watanabe, Akihide Kawamura, Kunichi Yamashita, Akira Takahashi, Yoshihiro Shibanai
  • Publication number: 20200380424
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihide KAWAMURA, Shu WATANABE, Kunichi YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20200018060
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shu WATANABE, Akihide KAWAMURA, Kunichi YAMASHITA, Akira TAKAHASHI, Yoshihiro SHIBANAI
  • Patent number: 8854723
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Fujita, Hideo Kobayashi, Masaaki Lawrence Araki, Takehito Hikichi, Motohiko Sakamaki, Akihide Kawamura
  • Patent number: 8760388
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Hiji, Akihide Kawamura, Yasufumi Suwabe
  • Patent number: 8676093
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Sakamoto, Kei Hirata, Akihide Kawamura, Naoya Iwata
  • Patent number: 8630034
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihide Kawamura, Hideo Kobayashi, Masaaki Araki, Takehito Hikichi, Mamoru Fujita, Motohiko Sakamaki
  • Publication number: 20130242375
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mamoru FUJITA, Hideo KOBAYASHI, Masaaki ARAKI, Takehito HIKICHI, Motohiko SAKAMAKI, Akihide KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20130242374
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihide KAWAMURA, Hideo KOBAYASHI, Masaaki ARAKI, Takehito HIKICHI, Mamoru FUJITA, Motohiko SAKAMAKI
  • Patent number: 8526101
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihide Kawamura, Hideo Kobayashi, Takehito Hikichi, Masaaki Araki, Mamoru Fujita, Motohiko Sakamaki
  • Patent number: 8170447
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: 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
  • Patent number: 8135312
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hirohisa Kohno, Kazunori Koshimori, Kei Hirata, Akihide Kawamura, Naoya Iwata, Keisuke Kubo, Takashi Sakamoto, Taiyou Uehara, Toshikazu Tsumita, Takeshi Okoshi, Tomio Onuki
  • Publication number: 20120044228
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Hiji, Akihide Kawamura, Yasufumi Suwabe