Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Shingai
Hiroyuki Shingai 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).
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Patent number: 8224227Abstract: A document feeding device comprises a document input tray, a document output tray, a feeding mechanism provided for a feeding path connecting the document input tray and the document output tray via a scanning position to feed each document from the document input tray to the scanning position and to the document output tray, a turnover mechanism provided for a turnover path connected to the feeding path to return the document after passing through the scanning position to the upstream side of the scanning position while interchanging the front end and rear end of the document, and an ejection mechanism configured so that its document ejection mode can be switched between a first ejection mode for successively ejecting each document while stacking it on documents already ejected to the document output tray and a second ejection mode for successively ejecting each document while sliding it under the already ejected documents.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2009Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroyuki Shingai
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Patent number: 8205876Abstract: A sheet ejector, configured to eject sheets so as to insert a later-ejected sheet under an earlier-ejected sheet on a catch tray, includes a feed roller provided to the catch tray, wherein the feed roller is configured to feed, in a predetermined ejecting direction, the later-ejected sheet that is inserted under the earlier-ejected sheet, and a switching mechanism configured to switch a state of the feed roller relative to a sheet on the catch tray between a contact state where the feed roller contacts the sheet on the catch tray and a non-contact state where the feed roller is kept from contacting the sheet on the catch tray.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2010Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroyuki Shingai
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Publication number: 20120043714Abstract: A sheet conveying device to convey a sheet in a sheet path is provided. The sheet conveying device includes a separator roller, which is arranged to be rotatably in contact with the sheet to apply conveying force to the sheet, a pad assembly including a separator pad, which is arranged to be in contact with the sheet stack to apply convey resistance to the sheet stack, and a holder, which is swingably attached to a base member and holds the separator pad, the base member being in a fixed position with respect to the separator roller, a spring, which urges the pad assembly toward the separator roller, and a slidable member, which is attached to the pad assembly to be integrally movable with the pad assembly and to be slidably in contact with a first slidable section in the base member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2011Publication date: February 23, 2012Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masanori HAMAGUCHI, Takaaki MUKAI, Ryoichi MATSUSHIMA, Kotaro KUROKAWA, Hiroyuki SHINGAI, Kazutoshi NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20110233849Abstract: An image reader is provided, which includes an intermediate feed roller that is disposed downstream relative to a separation roller on a feeding path and configured to rotate in contact with a document sheet separated and fed by the separation roller and feed the document sheet to a downstream side on the feeding path so as to restrain a variation of a tensile force applied to the document sheet, which variation may be caused when the document sheet is fed and away from the separation roller, and only a single U-turn roller that is disposed downstream relative to the intermediate feed roller on the feeding path, and configured to rotate in contact with the document sheet fed by the intermediate feed roller and feed the document sheet to a reading unit in a U-turn manner on a U-turn path curved along an outer circumferential surface of the U-turn roller.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroyuki SHINGAI
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Patent number: 7938390Abstract: A document feeding device comprises a document input tray, a document output tray placed above the document input tray, and a feeding mechanism provided for a feeding path (connecting the document input tray and the document output tray via a scanning position) to feed each document along the feeding path. The document output tray includes a reference tray and a pivoting tray (on the downstream side of the reference tray) pivotable with respect to the reference tray around a pivot shaft on the upstream side of the pivoting tray. The pivoting of the pivoting tray is restricted at a retracted position by a pivot restricting part when the pivoting tray has pivoted from a document stacking position to the retracted position. The pivot shaft is situated above an upstream end of a stacking surface of the pivoting tray when the pivoting tray is placed at the document stacking position.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2009Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroyuki Shingai
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Publication number: 20100328737Abstract: A sheet feeding device, which is configured to feed stacked sheets one by one in a sheet feed direction, is provided with a sheet tray configured to accommodate the stacked sheets, a feed-out roller protruded from the sheet tray and configured to feed the stacked sheets from the sheet tray, a feed-out nip member arranged above and opposite to the feed-out roller, the feed-out nip member being configured to contact an uppermost sheet of the stacked sheets and bias the sheets toward the feed-out roller, a separation unit located on a downstream side, in the sheet feed direction, of the feed-out roller, the separation unit separating a lowermost sheet from the stacked sheets fed by the feed-out roller, and a friction member configured to contact the uppermost sheet of the stacked sheets at a position different from a position where the feed-out nip member contacts the uppermost sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroyuki SHINGAI
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Publication number: 20100301544Abstract: A sheet ejector, configured to eject sheets so as to insert a later-ejected sheet under an earlier-ejected sheet on a catch tray, includes a feed roller provided to the catch tray, wherein the feed roller is configured to feed, in a predetermined ejecting direction, the later-ejected sheet that is inserted under the earlier-ejected sheet, and a switching mechanism configured to switch a state of the feed roller relative to a sheet on the catch tray between a contact state where the feed roller contacts the sheet on the catch tray and a non-contact state where the feed roller is kept from contacting the sheet on the catch tray.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2010Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroyuki SHINGAI
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Patent number: 7813012Abstract: An automatic document feeder includes: an inlet; an outlet; a transfer system configured to transfer a document from the inlet to the outlet; an input transfer path configured to guide a document during transfer from the inlet passed a scanning point to an end point positioned above the inlet; an output transfer path configured to guide the document during transfer from the end point passed the scanning point to the outlet; a secondary system configured to feed the document from the inlet; and a drive system configured to drive the transfer elements and the secondary system, wherein the drive system controls the transfer system such that, in at least some instances, operation of the secondary system is independent of operation of the transfer system.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2006Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroyuki Shingai
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Patent number: 7775515Abstract: In one aspect of a sheet conveying device, a sheet member is guided from a sheet feeding port through a reading position to a terminal end positioned above the sheet feeding port on a first path, guided from the terminal end through the reading position to the terminal end again on a second path, and guided from the terminal end through the reading position to a sheet discharging port on a third path. A transfer member rotates a conveying member and halts the rotation of the conveying member respectively according to first and second rotations of a driving source. A first detecting unit is provided downstream of the sheet feeding port on the first path. A control unit switches the driving source from the first rotation to the second rotation on the basis that the first detecting unit detects a trailing end of the sheet member.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroyuki Shingai
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Publication number: 20100095157Abstract: A method and system for analyzing a problem in a computing environment. Symptom rules that include associated problem information are generated in a symptom catalog. An input file including a stack trace provided in response to detecting the problem is received. Function names included in contiguous lines in the stack trace are identified. In response to a search for the function names in the symptom catalog, the function names found in the search are matched to keywords included in a symptom rule. The computing system retrieves problem information that corresponds to the matched keywords. A report is generated that includes the stack trace and a solution included in the retrieved problem information. The generated report uses a text attribute to emphasize the text of the function names included in the stack trace.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2008Publication date: April 15, 2010Inventors: Nozomu Aoyama, Toshimichi Arima, Kyoichi Ozaki, Hiroyuki Shingai, Masaaki Suehiro
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Patent number: 7665731Abstract: A sheet conveying device of an aspect of the invention includes: a conveying path that allows a sheet to be conveyed and includes a first guide face and a second guide face opposing and apart from each other at a predetermined interval; a sheet conveying unit disposed on the conveying path; and a first detecting unit and a second detecting unit arranged opposing each other across the conveying path. Each of the first and second detecting unit includes: an arm member rotatably supported to take a posture where the arm member projected from the guide face to the conveying path and a posture where the arm member is retracted from the conveying path by rotating toward the guide face; and a first sensor that outputs a signal depending on the posture of the arm member.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroyuki Shingai
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Publication number: 20090218750Abstract: A document feeding device for feeding documents comprises a document input tray on which documents to be fed are placed, a document output tray to which the documents are ejected, and a feeding mechanism which is provided for a feeding path connecting the document input tray and the document output tray via a scanning position and feeds each document from the document input tray to the scanning position and from the scanning position to the document output tray. The document output tray includes a tray part which holds the ejected documents, a projecting part which pushes up a part of the ejected documents on the upstream side in a feeding direction and thereby lifts an upstream end of the ejected documents, and a pressing member which makes contact with the ejected documents from above at a position on the downstream side of the projecting part's apex in the feeding direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2009Publication date: September 3, 2009Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroyuki SHINGAI
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Publication number: 20090218749Abstract: A document feeding device comprises a document input tray, a document output tray placed above the document input tray, and a feeding mechanism provided for a feeding path (connecting the document input tray and the document output tray via a scanning position) to feed each document along the feeding path. The document output tray includes a reference tray and a pivoting tray (on the downstream side of the reference tray) pivotable with respect to the reference tray around a pivot shaft on the upstream side of the pivoting tray. The pivoting of the pivoting tray is restricted at a retracted position by a pivot restricting part when the pivoting tray has pivoted from a document stacking position to the retracted position. The pivot shaft is situated above an upstream end of a stacking surface of the pivoting tray when the pivoting tray is placed at the document stacking position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2009Publication date: September 3, 2009Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroyuki Shingai
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Publication number: 20090220290Abstract: document feeding device comprises a document input tray, a document output tray, a feeding mechanism provided for a feeding path connecting the document input tray and the document output tray via a scanning position to feed each document from the document input tray to the scanning position and to the document output tray, a turnover mechanism provided for a turnover path connected to the feeding path to return the document after passing through the scanning position to the upstream side of the scanning position while interchanging the front end and rear end of the document, and an ejection mechanism configured so that its document ejection mode can be switched between a first ejection mode for successively ejecting each document while stacking it on documents already ejected to the document output tray and a second ejection mode for successively ejecting each document while sliding it under the already ejected documents.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2009Publication date: September 3, 2009Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroyuki SHINGAI
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Publication number: 20080169602Abstract: A sheet conveying device of an aspect of the invention includes: a conveying path that allows a sheet to be conveyed and includes a first guide face and a second guide face opposing and apart from each other at a predetermined interval; a sheet conveying unit disposed on the conveying path; and a first detecting unit and a second detecting unit arranged opposing each other across the conveying path. Each of the first and second detecting unit includes: an arm member rotatably supported to take a posture where the arm member projected from the guide face to the conveying path and a posture where the arm member is retracted from the conveying path by rotating toward the guide face; and a first sensor that outputs a signal depending on the posture of the arm member.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroyuki SHINGAI
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Publication number: 20080111293Abstract: In one aspect of a sheet conveying device, a sheet member is guided from a sheet feeding port through a reading position to a terminal end positioned above the sheet feeding port on a first path, guided from the terminal end through the reading position to the terminal end again on a second path, and guided from the terminal end through the reading position to a sheet discharging port on a third path. A transfer member rotates a conveying member and halts the rotation of the conveying member respectively according to first and second rotations of a driving source. A first detecting unit is provided downstream of the sheet feeding port on the first path. A control unit switches the driving source from the first rotation to the second rotation on the basis that the first detecting unit detects a trailing end of the sheet member.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2007Publication date: May 15, 2008Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroyuki SHINGAI
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Patent number: 7367381Abstract: A fan motor, which is mounted on an upper surface of an electronic component to cool the electronic component. The fan motor includes a fan motor and a thermally dissipating surface to which the fan motor is fixed. The fan motor includes a motor portion having cooling blades and an attaching plate having leg portions formed in its peripheral portions to fix the motor portion to the thermally dissipating surface. The thermally dissipating surface has a hole portion substantially as large as the attaching plate, and recessed portions capable of accommodating at least the leg portion therein. The attaching plate is passed through the hole portion toward the rear surface side and is rotated so that the leg portions are accommodated in the recessed portions.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1999Date of Patent: May 6, 2008Assignee: NIDEC Copal CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Shingai, Shinya Minakuchi
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Patent number: 7348753Abstract: A fan motor includes: a single-phase stepping motor including a stator excited by applying an electric current to a coil to function as a single-phase magnetic pole, and a rotor which has a permanent magnet magnetized to a single phase and rotates as the magnetic pole of the stator changes; an impeller which is rotated by a rotating shaft of the rotor; and a drive circuit for controlling an application of a current to the coil. The drive circuit applies pulse voltage to the coil and the coil constant is set so that a mean value of the current applied to the coil is 10 mA or smaller.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2004Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: NIDEC Copal CorporationInventors: Takashi Kasahara, Hiroyuki Shingai, Masaaki Takagi
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Publication number: 20070103740Abstract: An automatic document feeder includes: an inlet; an outlet; a transfer system configured to transfer a document from the inlet to the outlet; an input transfer path configured to guide a document during transfer from the inlet passed a scanning point to an end point positioned above the inlet; an output transfer path configured to guide the document during transfer from the end point passed the scanning point to the outlet; a secondary system configured to feed the document from the inlet; and a drive system configured to drive the transfer elements and the secondary system, wherein the drive system controls the transfer system such that, in at least some instances, operation of the secondary system is independent of operation of the transfer system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2006Publication date: May 10, 2007Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroyuki Shingai
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Publication number: 20040189238Abstract: A fan motor includes: a single-phase stepping motor including a stator excited by applying an electric current to a coil to function as a single-phase magnetic pole, and a rotor which has a permanent magnet magnetized to a single phase and rotates as the magnetic pole of the stator changes; an impeller which is rotated by a rotating shaft of the rotor; and a drive circuit for controlling an application of a current to the coil. The drive circuit applies pulse voltage to the coil and the coil constant is set so that a mean value of the current applied to the coil is 10 mA or smaller.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2004Publication date: September 30, 2004Applicant: Nidec Copal CorporationInventors: Takashi Kasahara, Hiroyuki Shingai, Masaaki Takagi