Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Moriyama

Hiroaki Moriyama 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: 20140045114
    Abstract: A magnetic toner for electrostatic latent image development includes toner particles containing toner core particle containing at least a binder resin and a magnetic powder, and a shell layer coating the toner core particle. In the toner, in the case where the surfaces of the shell layers are observed using a scanning electron microscope, the magnetic powder is not observed, and approximately spherical particles derived from the resin fine particles are not observed on the surfaces of the shell layers for toner particles having a particle diameter in a specific range. In the toner, in the case where the cross-sectional surfaces of the toner particles are observed using a transmission electron microscope, cracks approximately perpendicular to surfaces of the toner core particles are observed inside the shell layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Takeo Mizobe, Yukinori Nakayama, Hiroaki Moriyama, Takanori Tanaka, Hiroki Uemura
  • Publication number: 20140038097
    Abstract: A toner for electrostatic latent image development, containing toner particles composed of toner core particle containing at least a binder resin and a shell layer coating the toner core particle. Average circularities D4 to D7 of toner particles within predetermined particle diameter ranges are each no less than 0.960, the difference (Dmax?Dmin) between a maximum value Dmax among D4 to D7 and a minimum value Dmin among D4 to D7 is no greater than 0.015. The shell layer is smoothened to a predetermined level. And, cracks in a direction approximately perpendicular to a surface of the toner core particles are observable inside the shell layer when cross-section of the toner particle is observed using a transmission electron microscope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Takanori Tanaka, Yukinori Nakayama, Hiroaki Moriyama, Takeo Mizobe, Hiroki Uemura
  • Publication number: 20140030647
    Abstract: A toner for electrostatic latent image development is comprised toner particles containing toner core particle containing at least a binder resin and a shell layer coating the toner core particle. The shell layer is smoothened to a predetermined level. The average particle diameter of the resin fine particles is from 45 nm to 300 nm. And, when cross-sections of the toner particles are observed using a transmission electron microscope, cracks approximately perpendicular to surfaces of the toner core particles are observable inside the shell layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Moriyama, Yukinori Nakayama, Takeo Mizobe, Takanori Tanaka, Hiroki Uemura
  • Publication number: 20140030649
    Abstract: A toner for electrostatic latent image development is comprised toner particles containing toner core particle containing at least a binder resin and a shell layer coating the toner core particle. The shell layer is smoothened to a predetermined level. And, when cross-sections of the toner particles are observed using a transmission electron microscope, cracks approximately perpendicular to surfaces of the toner core particles are observable inside the shell layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Yukinori Nakayama, Hiroaki Moriyama, Takeo Mizobe, Takanori Tanaka, Hiroki Uemura
  • Patent number: 8581899
    Abstract: A display medium includes a pair of substrates, a dispersion medium sealed between the pair of substrates, a migrating particle group dispersed in the dispersion medium, and a surface layer provided on at least one of the facing surfaces of the pair of substrates and including a polymer compound that is a copolymer containing the following constitutional unit (A) and constitutional unit (B), X represents a group containing a silicone chain, Ra1 and Ra2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, Rb2 represents an organic group containing a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, n1 and n2 each represent mol % of the constitutional unit relative to the whole copolymer and satisfy 0<n1<50 and 0<n2<80, respectively, and n represents a natural number of 1 or more and 3 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Serox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Moriyama, Yasuo Yamamoto, Yoshinori Machida, Ryota Mizutani
  • Patent number: 8531757
    Abstract: A display medium includes a light control layer, wherein the light control layer includes mobile fine particles developing a color in a dispersion state and hetero-particles having characteristics different from those of the mobile fine particles. A display method includes at least one of the following steps: a step of displaying black color by allowing the mobile fine particles capable of developing a color in a dispersion state to aggregate; a step of displaying a color by allowing the mobile fine particles to disperse; or a step of displaying white color by reflection of the hetero-particles having characteristics different from those of the mobile fine particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Moriyama, Yasuo Yamamoto, Takayuki Takeuchi, Rie Ishii, Jun Kawahara
  • Patent number: 8477404
    Abstract: A display medium includes: a pair of substrates having electrodes and disposed to form a space therebetween, at least one of the substrates transmitting light; a dispersion medium enclosed between the substrates; a group of particles that is dispersed in the dispersion medium and that moves in the dispersion medium according to an electric field applied between the substrates; and a treatment layer provided on at least one of surfaces of the substrates that oppose each other, the treatment layer being formed by treating the at least one of surfaces of the substrates that oppose each other with a polymer compound having a silicone chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Moriyama, Yoshinori Machida, Yasuo Yamamoto, Ryojiro Akashi, Akira Imai
  • Publication number: 20130135361
    Abstract: An image display medium driver includes a voltage applying unit that applies a voltage between a pair of substrates of an image display medium that displays an image, the image display medium including plural groups of colored particles colored in a color which is different for every group, at least one of the substrates having transparent properties, each group of colored particles moved when the voltage equal to or higher than a threshold voltage in terms of absolute value, that is different for every group, and a controller that determines a substrate on which the colored particles are present for each group of colored particles based on the last image information used for displaying an image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasufumi SUWABE, Masaaki ABE, Yoshinori MACHIDA, Hiroaki MORIYAMA
  • Patent number: 8404881
    Abstract: White particles for display including at least one of a chain or cyclic polysilane compound having a polysilane structure represented by the following Formula (I) or a halogen-substituted compound thereof: wherein in Formula (I), A represents a phenyl group, B represents an alkyl group or a phenyl group, and n represents an integer of from 5 to 1000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Yamamoto, Hiroaki Moriyama
  • Patent number: 8331015
    Abstract: A display medium including a pair of substrates, a dispersion medium sealed between the pair of substrates, a migrating particle group dispersed in the dispersion medium, and a surface layer provided on at least one of the facing surfaces of the pair of substrates and including a copolymer containing the following constitutional unit (A) and constitutional unit (B), wherein X represents a group containing a silicone chain, Ra1 and Ra2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, Rb2 represents an organic group containing a fluorine atom, n1 and n2 each represent mol% of the constitutional unit relative to the whole copolymer and satisfy 0<n1<50 and 0<n2<50, respectively, and n represents a natural number of 1 or more and 3 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Moriyama, Yasuo Yamamoto, Yoshinori Machida, Ryota Mizutani
  • Patent number: 8300300
    Abstract: A particle for a display includes a colored particle containing a colorant and a polymer having a chargeable group; and a polymer gel layer that covers a surface of the colored particle and contains a polymer gel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryojiro Akashi, Akira Imai, Hiroaki Moriyama, Satoshi Tatsuura, Yoshinori Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20120069423
    Abstract: A display medium includes a pair of substrates, a dispersion medium sealed between the pair of substrates, a migrating particle group dispersed in the dispersion medium, and a surface layer provided on at least one of the facing surfaces of the pair of substrates and including a polymer compound that is a copolymer containing the following constitutional unit (A) and constitutional unit (B): In the constitutional units (A) and (B), X represents a group containing a silicone chain, Ra1 and Ra2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, Rb2 represents an organic group containing a fluorine atom, n1 and n2 each represent mol % of the constitutional unit relative to the whole copolymer and satisfy 0<n1<50 and 0<n2<50, respectively, and n represents a natural number of 1 or more and 3 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki MORIYAMA, Yasuo YAMAMOTO, Yoshinori MACHIDA, Ryota MIZUTANI
  • Publication number: 20120068990
    Abstract: A display medium includes a pair of substrates, a dispersion medium sealed between the pair of substrates, a migrating particle group dispersed in the dispersion medium, and a surface layer provided on at least one of the facing surfaces of the pair of substrates and including a polymer compound that is a copolymer containing the following constitutional unit (A) and constitutional unit (B): In the constitutional units (A) and (B), X represents a group containing a silicone chain, Ra1 and Ra2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, Rb2 represents an organic group containing a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, n1 and n2 each represent mold of the constitutional unit relative to the whole copolymer and satisfy 0<n1<50 and 0<n2<80, respectively, and n represents a natural number of 1 or more and 3 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki MORIYAMA, Yasuo YAMAMOTO, Yoshinori MACHIDA, Ryota MIZUTANI
  • Patent number: 8094365
    Abstract: White particles for display including first white particles that move in response to an electric field and second white particles that do not move in response to an electric field, the second white particles having a volume average particle size that is less than that of the first white particles, and a ratio of the numerical amount of the first white particles/the second white particles (L/S) satisfying the following relationship: 1/(5.1×107)?L/S?1/(2.8×104).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Yamamoto, Hiroaki Moriyama, Yoshinori Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20110298835
    Abstract: A driving device of a display medium that including first and second particle groups migrating independently due to a first voltage being imparted for a first time period, forming aggregates due to the first voltage being imparted for a second time period, and the aggregates migrating due to a second voltage being imparted. The driving device includes a voltage imparting section that: imparts a third voltage that moves, to a display substrate side, a greater-amount-needed particle group for gradation display, in an amount of a difference between particles of the first particle group and second particle group needed for the display; when the greater-amount-needed particle group has an opposite polarity to the aggregates, imparts a fourth voltage that moves the aggregates needed to the display substrate side; and when the polarities are same, imparts a fifth voltage that moves the aggregates not needed to a rear substrate side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori MACHIDA, Hiroaki MORIYAMA, Yasuo YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20110175939
    Abstract: The invention provides a display device including a display medium, the display medium including a pair of substrates positioned so as to have a space therebetween, at least one of the substrates having translucency; a pair of electrodes respectively being positioned on the pair of substrates, the electrode positioned on the substrate having translucency having translucency; a dispersion medium positioned between the pair of electrodes; and first particles and second particles being dispersed in the dispersion medium and having different colors and different charge polarities, the first particles and the second particles electrophoretically moving independently from each other when a first voltage potential difference is applied between the pair of electrodes, and the first particles and the second particles electrophoretically moving while forming a positively or negatively charged flocculation when a second voltage potential difference that is smaller than the first voltage potential difference is applied b
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki MORIYAMA, Yoshinori MACHIDA, Yasuo YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20110043441
    Abstract: Electrophoretic particles including mother particles and a dispersant that covers the surface of the mother particles, the mother particles including a resin and a colorant, and the dispersant having a structure represented by the following Formula (1): wherein in Formula (1), R1 represents a dimethyl siloxane chain that comprises two or more dimethyl siloxane structures that are linked together, the dimethyl siloxane chain being optionally substituted by an organic group; R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; Ar1 represents an organic group having an aromatic group; a represents an integer of from 8 to 88; b represents an integer of from 12 to 82; c represents an integer of from 0 to 30; f represents an integer of from 1 to 3; the total of a, b and c is 100; and the ratio of unit (b) in the dispersant having a structure represented by Formula (1) is about 50% by weight or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nami TOKUNAGA, Jun KAWAHARA, Daisuke NAKAYAMA, Yasuo YAMAMOTO, Hiroaki MORIYAMA
  • Patent number: 7855829
    Abstract: Particles for display including color particles and a silicone polymer attached to a surface of the color particles, the silicone polymer including, as copolymerization components, a first silicone chain component, a second silicone component including a silicone chain that is shorter than a silicone chain of the first silicone component, and a component including a charging group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Yamamoto, Hiroaki Moriyama, Yoshinori Machida
  • Patent number: 7848009
    Abstract: An image display medium includes a pair of substrates, a liquid that is enclosed between the substrates, first colored particles, second colored particles and third colored particles. The first colored particles are colored a first color and move in response to an electric field that is formed between the substrates. The second colored particles are colored a second color and move in an opposite direction of the first colored particles. The third colored particles are colored a third color, are configured to have a particle diameter such that the third colored particles move through clearances between the first colored particles and the second colored particles in a state in which the first colored particles and the second colored particles have aggregated together, and move in response to an electric field that is formed between the substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Machida, Hiroaki Moriyama, Yasufumi Suwabe, Masaaki Abe, Satoshi Tatsuura, Yoshinori Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Kayashima, Kiyoshi Shigehiro
  • Publication number: 20100225228
    Abstract: White particles for display including at least one of a chain or cyclic polysilane compound having a polysilane structure represented by the following Formula (I) or a halogen-substituted compound thereof: wherein in Formula (I), A represents a phenyl group, B represents an alkyl group or a phenyl group, and n represents an integer of from 5 to 1000.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo YAMAMOTO, Hiroaki MORIYAMA