Patents by Inventor Hina Saito

Hina Saito 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).

  • FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20240103413
    Abstract: A fixing device includes an endless belt, a fixing member that presses the belt against a recording medium holding an unfixed image to fix the unfixed image onto the recording medium, a restorer that is pressed against a surface of the belt after the image is fixed to restore the surface of the belt to a state before a fixing operation, and a changer that changes a pressing load of the restorer in accordance with a difference in a state of the surface of the belt between before the fixing operation and after the fixing operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takuma ISHIHARA, Takashi MATSUBARA, Takashi OHASHI, Hina SAITO
  • BELT TRANSPORT DEVICE, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20240101354
    Abstract: A belt transport device includes an endless belt, multiple stretchers that stretch the belt, a corrector that displaces one of the multiple stretchers to correct a shift of the belt toward an edge portion of the belt in an axial direction of the belt, and a lubricant applicator that applies a lubricant to an inner surface of the belt at the edge portion of the belt in the axial direction when the belt has shifted toward the edge portion in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takashi MATSUBARA, Takashi Ohashi, Takuma Ishihara, Hina Saito
  • FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20240103416
    Abstract: A fixing device includes an endless belt, multiple stretchers that stretch the belt, a heater that heats the belt including sections, section by section, sectioned in a direction crossing a rotation direction of the belt, and a switch that switches the sections heated by the heater from one to another in accordance with a position of an edge portion of the belt in the direction crossing the rotation direction of the belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takashi MATSUBARA, Takashi Ohashi, Takuma Ishihara, Hina Saito