Patents by Inventor Harunobu Maeda

Harunobu Maeda 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).

  • Publication number: 20230390764
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a microchannel device that has a channel sandwiched between channel walls formed in an inside of a porous substrate, wherein the channel wall contains a thermoplastic resin and a colorant, and wherein an abundance ratio of the colorant is higher in the porous substrate surface area of the channel wall than in an internal area of the channel wall. In the configuration of the present disclosure, since more of the colorant exist on the surface side of the porous substrate in the channel wall, the visibility of the channel is increased, and in addition, since the amount of the colorant in the internal portion of the channel wall is small, the elution of the ions contained in the colorant into the specimen is suppressed, and the measurement accuracy is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: MAKOTO FUKATSU, MASANORI TANAKA, TAKESHI YAMAMOTO, Keiji Miyazaki, JUN MIURA, HARUNOBU MAEDA, FUKA ENOKIDO, AKIHISA MATSUKAWA, YUHEI TERUI
  • Publication number: 20230390765
    Abstract: It is possible to provide a microchannel device with excellent resistance to bending and suppressed deterioration in inspection accuracy. A microchannel device has a channel sandwiched between channel walls formed in an inside a porous substrate, the channel wall contains a thermoplastic resin and a wax, and a proportion of the wax in an area of a surface side of the channel wall facing the channel is higher than a proportion of the wax inside the channel wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: AKIHISA MATSUKAWA, MAKOTO FUKATSU, MASANORI TANAKA, TAKESHI YAMAMOTO, Keiji Miyazaki, JUN MIURA, HARUNOBU MAEDA, FUKA ENOKIDO, YUHEI TERUI
  • Patent number: 11835888
    Abstract: A developing device includes a stirring member including a flexible sheet member having a first sheet portion and a second sheet portion overlapping each other with respect to a thickness direction of the sheet member. With respect to a lateral direction of the sheet member which is a direction from a fixed end fixed to a rotating shaft portion to the free end, a length of the first sheet portion is longer than a length of the second sheet portion, and when the stirring member is rotated, a free end of the first sheet portion is capable of contacting an inner wall surface of a toner accommodation chamber. The sheet member is provided with a through hole penetrating in a thickness direction of the sheet member in a region where the first sheet portion and the second sheet portion overlap each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Harunobu Maeda, Masahito Kato, Kodai Hayashi, Takuya Oka, Yu Akiba, Masato Tanabe, Koichi Ooishi, Takatoshi Hamada, Yuichiro Hirata
  • Publication number: 20220283526
    Abstract: A developing device includes a frame having an accommodation chamber where a developer is accommodated, and a replenishing port replenishing a developer to the accommodation chamber from outside; and a stirring member stirring the developer in the accommodation chamber, the stirring member including a rotating shaft portion rotatably supported by the frame and a sheet member having one end fixed to the rotating shaft portion and another end as a free end and being rotatable with the rotating shaft portion. When the stirring member is rotated, the free end of the sheet member is capable of contacting an inner wall surface of the accommodation chamber in which the replenishing port is formed, and a through hole penetrating in a thickness direction of the sheet member is provided in a region of the sheet member that comes into contact with the inner wall surface of the accommodation chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Harunobu Maeda, Masahito Kato, Kodai Hayashi, Takuya Oka, Yu Akiba, Masato Tanabe, Koichi Ooishi, Takatoshi Hamada, Yuichiro Hirata
  • Patent number: 11372348
    Abstract: A developing device includes a frame having an accommodation chamber where a developer is accommodated, and a replenishing port replenishing a developer to the accommodation chamber from outside, and a stirring member stirring the developer in the accommodation chamber. The stirring member includes a rotating shaft portion rotatably supported by the frame and a sheet member having one end fixed to the rotating shaft portion and another end as a free end and being rotatable with the rotating shaft portion. When the stirring member is rotated, the free end of the sheet member is capable of contacting an inner wall surface of the accommodation chamber in which the replenishing port is formed, and a through hole penetrating in a thickness direction of the sheet member is provided in a region of the sheet member that comes into contact with the inner wall surface of the accommodation chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Harunobu Maeda, Masahito Kato, Kodai Hayashi, Takuya Oka, Yu Akiba, Masato Tanabe, Koichi Ooishi, Takatoshi Hamada, Yuichiro Hirata
  • Publication number: 20210080870
    Abstract: A developing device includes a frame having an accommodation chamber where a developer is accommodated, and a replenishing port replenishing a developer to the accommodation chamber from outside; and a stirring member stirring the developer in the accommodation chamber, the stirring member including a rotating shaft portion rotatably supported by the frame and a sheet member having one end fixed to the rotating shaft portion and another end as a free end and being rotatable with the rotating shaft portion. When the stirring member is rotated, the free end of the sheet member is capable of contacting an inner wall surface of the accommodation chamber in which the replenishing port is formed, and a through hole penetrating in a thickness direction of the sheet member is provided in a region of the sheet member that comes into contact with the inner wall surface of the accommodation chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Harunobu Maeda, Masahito Kato, Kodai Hayashi, Takuya Oka, Yu Akiba, Masato Tanabe, Koichi Ooishi, Takatoshi Hamada, Yuichiro Hirata
  • Patent number: 7653658
    Abstract: A data file storage/management apparatus, having file storage means, stores and manages one or more data files, and the data file storage/management apparatus installs an electronic mail processing program therein, thereby operating as follows. Thus, the data file storage/management apparatus interprets the processing of the data file, which is described in a program-like manner, at least within the main sentence thereof, when receiving the electronic mail, and starts the processing of the data file designated or instructed; thereby enabling to instruct, easily, the processing on the data files, being various for users thereof, to the data file storage/management apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroki Miyachi, Harunobu Maeda, Yoshiko Suenaga, Kouichi Mase
  • Patent number: 7447994
    Abstract: A setup program, a recording medium, and a setup method are provided that can readily reduce wrong settings. The setup program includes a plurality of setting modules that are provided to realize a plurality of process settings independently of one another, the processing settings being required depending on the contents of a setting environment, the setting modules respectively corresponding to the process settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kouichi Mase, Harunobu Maeda, Hiroki Miyachi, Yoshiko Suenaga
  • Patent number: 7298517
    Abstract: A facsimile device includes a printing unit for printing an image by using an expendable component, and a communication circuit connectable to a supplier of the expendable component via a communication network. Particularly, the facsimile device further includes an order controller for confirming that maintenance of the expendable component is required a number of times corresponding to an order-unit quantity, and for controlling the communication circuit such that order information for ordering the expendable component of the order-unit quantity is transmitted to the supplier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignees: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Harunobu Maeda
  • Publication number: 20060212485
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide an electronic file saving system capable of classifying and organizing a wider variety of electronic files than before. The present invention relates to an electronic file saving system for storing an electronic file in any of a plurality of folders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiko Suenaga, Hiroki Miyachi, Kouichi Mase, Harunobu Maeda
  • Publication number: 20060112100
    Abstract: Provided are a document management device, a document management method, and a document management program that are capable of providing a user with notification that an updated shared file has been stored. The present invention refers to a document management apparatus that manages a shared document to which access is permitted to a plurality of users. The document management apparatus has a shared document management section which, when a shared file designated by a user has been checked in, provides check-in notification, to an address designated by the user, that the shared file has been checked in.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Harunobu Maeda, Hiroki Miyachi, Yoshiko Suenaga, Kouichi Mase
  • Publication number: 20060112147
    Abstract: A document management apparatus, a document management method, and a document management program which can set an error-coping process provided by a method simpler than a conventional method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiko Suenaga, Hiroki Miyachi, Kouichi Mase, Harunobu Maeda
  • Publication number: 20060098685
    Abstract: A setup program, a recording medium, and a setup method are provided that can readily reduce wrong settings. The setup program includes a plurality of setting modules that are provided to realize a plurality of process settings independently of one another, the processing settings being required depending on the contents of a setting environment, the setting modules respectively corresponding to the process settings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kouichi Mase, Harunobu Maeda, Hiroki Miyachi, Yoshiko Suenaga
  • Publication number: 20060080366
    Abstract: A data file storage/management apparatus, having file storage means, stores and manages one or more data files, and the data file storage/management apparatus installs an electronic mail processing program therein, thereby operating as follows. Thus, the data file storage/management apparatus interprets the processing of the data file, which is described in a program-like manner, at least within the main sentence thereof, when receiving the electronic mail, and starts the processing of the data file designated or instructed; thereby enabling to instruct, easily, the processing on the data files, being various for users thereof, to the data file storage/management apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Publication date: April 13, 2006
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroki Miyachi, Harunobu Maeda, Yoshiko Suenaga, Kouichi Mase
  • Patent number: 7027173
    Abstract: A facsimile device includes a printing unit for printing an image by using an expendable component, and a communication circuit connectable to a supplier of the expendable component via a communication network. Particularly, the facsimile device further includes an order controller for confirming that maintenance of the expendable component is required a number of times corresponding to an order-unit quantity, and for controlling the communication circuit such that order information for ordering the expendable component of the order-unit quantity is transmitted to the supplier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Harunobu Maeda
  • Publication number: 20050254830
    Abstract: A facsimile device includes a printing unit for printing an image by using an expendable component, and a communication circuit connectable to a supplier of the expendable component via a communication network. Particularly, the facsimile device further includes an order controller for confirming that maintenance of the expendable component is required a number of times corresponding to an order-unit quantity, and for controlling the communication circuit such that order information for ordering the expendable component of the order-unit quantity is transmitted to the supplier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2005
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Applicants: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Harunobu Maeda
  • Publication number: 20010015824
    Abstract: A facsimile device includes a printing unit for printing an image by using an expendable component, and a communication circuit connectable to a supplier of the expendable component via a communication network. Particularly, the facsimile device further includes an order controller for confirming that maintenance of the expendable component is required a number of times corresponding to an order-unit quantity, and for controlling the communication circuit such that order information for ordering the expendable component of the order-unit quantity is transmitted to the supplier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Publication date: August 23, 2001
    Applicant: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Harunobu Maeda