Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Hagiwara

Hiroshi Hagiwara 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: 20210179344
    Abstract: An aircraft water tank is provided. With an aircraft water tank being suspended by a fuselage via bushes, a load applied to each of the bushes is transferred from the bush and an attachment hole to a metal plate. The load transferred to metal plate is transferred to a total of four prepreg projection portions at a section of a thick wall portion of the metal plate and transferred to a total of eight prepreg projection portions at a section of a thin wall portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji Taguchi, Hiroshi Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 10913627
    Abstract: A feeding apparatus includes a placement unit on which a recording material is to be placed, a feeding rotating member, a regulating plate, a detecting unit, and a control unit. The feeding rotating member feeds the recording material placed on the placement unit. The regulating plate regulates a position of an upstream end of the recording material placed on the placement unit in a direction of feeding by the feeding rotating member. The detecting unit detects a size of the recording material from a position of the regulating plate. The control unit changes duration of execution of a recording-material feeding operation performed by the feeding rotating member based on the size of the recording material detected by the detecting unit and a size of the recording material specified in advance by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naohisa Nagata, Hiroshi Hagiwara
  • Publication number: 20210021716
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image formation unit configured to form an image on a sheet at a formation position; a circulatory conveyance path for conveying the sheet with the image formed at the formation position on a first side thereof, to the formation position again; a reading unit configured to read the first side of the sheet conveyed through the circulatory conveyance path, and output image information; and a conveyance control unit configured to convey the sheet in one conveyance mode out of a plurality of conveyance modes when the reading unit reads the first side of the sheet, wherein a range, in a conveyance direction, of the sheet that can be read by the reading unit while a conveyance speed of the sheet is constant is different for each of the plurality of conveyance modes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventor: Hiroshi Hagiwara
  • Publication number: 20200341422
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet; a reading unit configured to read the image formed on the sheet by the image forming unit in a duration where the sheet is being conveyed by a conveying unit; a control unit configured to control a conveyance speed of the sheet by the conveying unit; and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not there is an image defect in the image formed on the sheet by the image forming unit based on image data of a first partial image read by the reading unit, excluding a second partial image passing through the reading unit during a speed variation period in which the control unit varies the conveyance speed of the sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Shingo Harada, Hiroshi Hagiwara
  • Publication number: 20200324990
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a detection unit, and a determination unit. The conveyance unit conveys a sheet. The detection unit detects a sound that emanates when the conveyance unit operates. The determination unit performs state determination. In a case where a volume of a sound detected by the detection unit is not higher than or equal to a predetermined sound volume, the determination unit determines that the conveyance unit is not normally operating. In a case where the detected sound volume is higher than or equal to the predetermined sound volume, the determination unit determines that the conveyance unit is normally operating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Kosuke Ogino, Hajime Sugaya, Hiroshi Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 10748507
    Abstract: To display an image list stored in a memory with good visibility and to display the image list at a high speed, an image display device reads an image file in an Exif format, extracts a thumbnail image included in the image file in the Exif format, and generates a displayed image having a predetermined size and a square shape, thus displaying it in the image list. It is possible to improve visibility in displaying the image file aligning square-shaped displayed image having the same size while precluding blanks. It is possible to perform high-speed processing in producing an image list using thumbnail images included in image files in the Exif format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 10611557
    Abstract: A structure whereby a piping nozzle can be simply attached to a tank body is disclosed. A cylinder of a nozzle body is inserted through the interior and exterior of the tank body via a nozzle body insertion hole in the tank body. A skirt is provided on an end portion of the cylinder, and expands annularly from the end portion of the cylinder in the interior of the tank body. A sealing member is interposed between an inner surface of the tank body and the skirt around the nozzle body insertion hole. A spacer member is disposed on an outer surface of the tank body around the cylinder. By tightening a nut on a male screw of the cylinder of the nozzle body, a portion of the tank body around the nozzle body insertion hole is sandwiched by the skirt of the nozzle body and the spacer member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Taguchi, Hiroshi Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 10591850
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of an end of the fixing device, and a blower unit that supplies air to the end of the fixing device to cool the end of the fixing device. In addition, a processor circuit is configured to control a cooling level by the blower unit in accordance with the temperature of the end of the fixing device detected by the temperature sensor, to predict, based on a parameter depending on the cooling level, a discharge amount of ultra fine particles that are discharged from the image forming apparatus, and to control an image forming operation by the image forming apparatus such that the discharge amount of ultra fine particles is reduced in accordance with the discharge amount predicted by the processor circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hagiwara, Takashi Yano, Tetsuya Sano, Noriaki Sato
  • Patent number: 10579001
    Abstract: An image forming unit forms an image on a sheet. A reverse unit pulls in the sheet from a main conveyance path and reverses a conveyance direction of the sheet to feed the sheet to a sub-conveyance path. A control unit causes a conveyance unit to convey a first sheet that is waiting to the main conveyance path after a trailing end of a second sheet that has been fed from a feeding unit and follows the first sheet has passed through a merging point, and moves a trailing end of the first sheet downstream of a branch point before the second sheet reaches the branch point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keisuke Endoh, Hiroshi Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 10569492
    Abstract: A binding processing device includes a first pressing member including: a first convex portion; a first concave portion; and a first connection portion which is provided between the first convex portion and the first concave portion; and a second pressing member including: a second convex portion; a second concave portion; and a second connection portion which is provided between the second convex portion and the second concave portion. In a state in which the first convex portion of the first pressing member and the second concave portion of the second pressing member come in contact with each other at the first connection portion and the second connection portion, the first connection portion contacts with the second connection portion and a gap is formed between the first convex portion and the second concave portion along a pressing direction of the first and second pressing members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Nakano, Hiroaki Awano, Takuya Makita, Kojiro Tsutsumi, Katsumi Harada, Yasuhiro Kusumoto, Hiroshi Hagiwara, Emiko Shiraishi, Junichi Hirota
  • Patent number: 10543655
    Abstract: There is provided a binding member. An upper toothed part having projections and recesses for forming irregularities in a bundle of recording materials. A lower toothed part having projections and recesses for forming irregularities in the bundle of recording materials and forming a pair with the upper toothed part. In at least one of the upper toothed part and the lower toothed part, in a cross section shape of the toothed part, the recesses of the toothed part have depressed areas depressed from virtual lines which are extensions of inclined surfaces of the toothed part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Awano, Yoshinori Nakano, Takuya Makita, Junichi Hirota, Hiroshi Hagiwara, Emiko Shiraishi, Yasuhiro Kusumoto, Kojiro Tsutsumi, Toshiyasu Yukawa, Katsumi Harada
  • Publication number: 20200027406
    Abstract: An electronic mirror apparatus includes a display unit, an optical mirror, a mode switcher, and a luminance adjuster. The display unit is configured to display a camera image of a peripheral view field of a vehicle captured with an on-vehicle camera. The optical mirror is disposed adjacent to a liquid crystal panel and is configured to reflect a reflected image of the peripheral view field. The mode switcher is configured to switch between a mirror mode for visual recognition of the peripheral view field with use of the reflected image in the optical mirror, and a display mode for visual recognition of the peripheral view field with use of the camera image on the display unit. The luminance adjuster is configured to adjust luminance of the display unit between a first luminance threshold for satisfying visibility and a second luminance threshold for reduction in deterioration of a backlight unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: YUTAKA KANAZAWA, HIROSHI HAGIWARA
  • Patent number: 10459357
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate; an undercoat layer formed on the conductive substrate and containing a polyurethane resin, metal oxide particles, a silane coupling agent, and a compound represented by General Formula (ID); and a photosensitive layer formed on the undercoat layer (where R1 to R8 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a nitro group, a cyano group, a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group optionally having a substituent, an aromatic hydrocarbon group optionally having a substituent, an alkoxy group optionally having a substituent, an aryloxy group optionally having a substituent, a sulfo group optionally having a substituent, an amino group, an alkylamino group optionally having a substituent, or an arylamino group optionally having a substituent).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Nakamura, Satoshi Tomita, Shingo Suda, Kazunori Onishi, Hiroshi Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 10421306
    Abstract: There is provided a binding member. The binding member includes: an upper toothed part having projections and recesses for forming irregularities in a bundle of recording materials; and a lower toothed part having projections and recesses for forming irregularities in the bundle of recording materials and forming a pair with the upper toothed part. In at least one of the upper toothed part and the lower toothed part, in side surfaces of the recesses of one toothed part, when the upper toothed part and the lower toothed part are engaged, surfaces wide in a direction parallel to the pressing direction of the toothed parts are formed so as to be provided gaps between the upper toothed part and the lower toothed part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Awano, Yoshinori Nakano, Takuya Makita, Junichi Hirota, Hiroshi Hagiwara, Emiko Shiraishi, Yasuhiro Kusumoto, Kojiro Tsutsumi, Toshiyasu Yukawa, Katsumi Harada
  • Patent number: 10406843
    Abstract: In a cross section shape of the toothed part, in gaps formed between a recesses and a projections when a upper toothed part and a lower toothed part are engaged without a bundle of recording materials, when the distances between the recesses and the projections in a pressing direction of the toothed part at positions where the distances from a center lines of the projections in a direction perpendicular to the pressing direction of the toothed part to the surfaces of the projections in the direction perpendicular to the pressing direction of the toothed part are a distance L1 are H1, and the distances between the recesses and the projections at positions where the distances from the center lines to surfaces of the projections in the direction perpendicular to the pressing direction of the toothed part are H2, a combination of L1 and L2 satisfies H1 is smaller than H2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Awano, Yoshinori Nakano, Takuya Makita, Junichi Hirota, Hiroshi Hagiwara, Emiko Shiraishi, Yasuhiro Kusumoto, Kojiro Tsutsumi, Toshiyasu Yukawa, Katsumi Harada
  • Patent number: 10404889
    Abstract: A method of controlling a printing system includes displaying, in a mobile terminal, a setting region for inputting a print setting for print data, and a search region for inputting a search condition for image forming apparatus candidates, of a plurality of image forming apparatuses, for executing printing, and searching, in a management system, for one or more image forming apparatuses, out of the plurality of image forming apparatuses, in accordance with the search condition input in the search region of the screen, and displaying display content that associates information of the image forming apparatuses with charge information for when the print data is printed by the image forming apparatuses, respectively, on a screen that includes a selection region by which it is possible to select the printing target, out of the one or more image forming apparatuses found in the searching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayuki Miyamoto, Kazuhiko Okazawa, Yuuji Takayama, Hikaru Uchidate, Munehito Kurata, Hiroshi Hagiwara, Masayuki Takao, Masaaki Nakamura, Katsuhiko Shinjo, Senju Sato
  • Patent number: 10394224
    Abstract: A fabrication management system includes a fabrication control apparatus and a fabrication management server. The fabrication control apparatus includes a composite fabrication unit that fabricates multiple fabricated members in a single process, and a controller that controls fabrication performed by the composite fabrication unit. The fabrication management server includes a designing section that, from fabrication information about multiple first fabricated members for which a fabrication request has been made, designs a second fabricated member that holds all the first fabricated members in a removable manner, and an instructing section that instructs fabrication to be performed in accordance with fabrication procedure information, the fabrication procedure information indicating a procedure for obtaining a finished fabricated object by assembling together the first fabricated members and the second fabricated member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hagiwara, Satoshi Tomita, Kazunori Onishi
  • Patent number: 10357932
    Abstract: There is provided a binding member. The binding member includes an upper toothed part having projections and recesses for forming irregularities in a bundle of recording materials; and a lower toothed part having projections and recesses for forming irregularities in the bundle of recording materials and forming a pair with the upper toothed part. In at least one of the upper toothed part and the lower toothed part, in some of parts of inclined surfaces of the toothed part which form the recesses, second curved surfaces having the centers of curvature on the opposite sides of the inclined surfaces to the centers of curvature of first curved surfaces which form the recesses are formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Awano, Yoshinori Nakano, Takuya Makita, Junichi Hirota, Hiroshi Hagiwara, Emiko Shiraishi, Yasuhiro Kusumoto, Kojiro Tsutsumi, Toshiyasu Yukawa, Katsumi Harada
  • Publication number: 20190196346
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate; an undercoat layer formed on the conductive substrate and containing a polyurethane resin, metal oxide particles, a silane coupling agent, and a compound represented by General Formula (ID); and a photosensitive layer formed on the undercoat layer (where R1 to R8 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a nitro group, a cyano group, a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group optionally having a substituent, an aromatic hydrocarbon group optionally having a substituent, an alkoxy group optionally having a substituent, an aryloxy group optionally having a substituent, a sulfo group optionally having a substituent, an amino group, an alkylamino group optionally having a substituent, or an arylamino group optionally having a substituent).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro NAKAMURA, Satoshi TOMITA, Shingo SUDA, Kazunori ONISHI, Hiroshi HAGIWARA
  • Patent number: 10331069
    Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes an image adjustment unit that performs image adjustment on an image for adjustment formed on a rotary member by an image forming unit, based on a detection result by a detection unit. The image adjustment unit calculates the position of second data corresponding to the detection result by detecting an area in which the image for adjustment is formed, calculates first data corresponding to the position of the second data corresponding to the detection result by detecting an area in which the image for adjustment is not formed, and performs the image adjustment by using the first data and the second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Hagiwara