Patents by Inventor Junichi Nawama
Junichi Nawama 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: 10240281Abstract: A clothes separating device and a clothes processing apparatus including the clothes separating device according to this disclosure are provided with a separator that operates to grip clothes in a washing tub and to separate, from the gripped clothes, another item of clothes entwined with the gripped clothes. In this manner, a user does not need to separate a plurality of individual items of clothes before folding the clothes. Hence, it is possible to provide the clothes separating device that contributes to reducing a burden of work related to laundry and a clothes processing apparatus including the clothes separating device.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2016Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Ozeki, Shinji Suematsu, Hiroshi Kohso, Hiroshi Horibata, Junichi Nawama, Masahiro Kawai, Yasunori Matsunari, Masataka Kitajima
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Publication number: 20170356124Abstract: A clothes separating device and a clothes processing apparatus including the clothes separating device according to this disclosure are provided with a separator that operates to grip clothes in a washing tub and to separate, from the gripped clothes, another item of clothes entwined with the gripped clothes. In this manner, a user does not need to separate a plurality of individual items of clothes before folding the clothes. Hence, it is possible to provide the clothes separating device that contributes to reducing a burden of work related to laundry and a clothes processing apparatus including the clothes separating device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2016Publication date: December 14, 2017Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuji OZEKI, Shinji SUEMATSU, Hiroshi KOHSO, Hiroshi HORIBATA, Junichi NAWAMA, Masahiro KAWAI, Yasunori MATSUNARI, Masataka KITAJIMA
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Publication number: 20120137740Abstract: Includes bottomed, cylindrical water tub (3) having water tub opening (13), provided inside cabinet (2); bottomed, cylindrical rotating drum (4) having drum opening (54), provided inside water tub (3); and motor (6) attached onto outer bottom surface (30) of water tub (3), for rotating drum (4) on a rotation axis horizontal or downward inclined toward the bottom. Further includes circulation tube (16) communicatively connecting the bottom side of water tub (3) with the side of water tub opening (13), for circulating washing water in water tub (3) from the bottom side to the side of water tub opening (13); and a plurality of ejection holes (53) for ejecting washing water circulated toward the inside of rotating drum (4). Washing water ejected from the plurality of ejection holes (53) toward the inside of rotating drum (4) is fed to the laundry efficiently, thereby increasing the washing power.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2010Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Kikikawa, Junichi Nawama, Makoto Oyama, Tsuyoshi Murao
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Patent number: 7843678Abstract: The photoelectron generating plate includes on a substrate a photoelectron emission layer for emitting photoelectrons by the illumination of the light and having a barrier property. A diffusion of a material of an underlying base member into the photoelectron emission layer is blocked by the barrier layer and thus the surface of the photoelectron emission layer is prevented from being coated by the material of the base member. As a result, temporal reduction in the number of generated negative ions can be considerably ameliorated. In other words, the charge removing device attains a good durability for a long time.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2004Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kunikazu Kuchino, Takaiki Nomura, Junichi Nawama, Yoshifumi Moriya
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Publication number: 20040144417Abstract: The photoelectron generating plate includes on a substrate a photoelectron emission layer for emitting photoelectrons by the illumination of the light and having a barrier property. A diffusion of a material of an underlying base member into the photoelectron emission layer is blocked by the barrier layer and thus the surface of the photoelectron emission layer is prevented from being coated by the material of the base member. As a result, temporal reduction in the number of generated negative ions can be considerably ameliorated. In other words, the charge removing device attains a good durability for a long time.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2004Publication date: July 29, 2004Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kunikazu Kuchino, Takaiki Nomura, Junichi Nawama, Yoshifumi Moriya
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Patent number: 5787326Abstract: In a color electrophotographic printer, an intermediate transfer belt is provided to layer toner images of a plurality of colors, and the toner images on the belt are transferred onto a paper sheet. In order to remove a paper sheet when a paper jam happens, a door is provided in a case of the printer, while a cover is provided to protect a transfer region where the intermediate transfer belt contacts with a paper sheet for transferring the toner images. When the door is opened, the cover moves to cover a portion of the surface of the intermediate transfer belt exposed to the door. When the jammed paper sheet is removed, the image forming process is resumed immediately on the toner images on the intermediate transfer belt. Further, an intermediate transfer unit including the intermediate transfer belt and the cover detachable from the printer may be provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 1996Date of Patent: July 28, 1998Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsutoshi Ogawa, Akira Kumon, Junichi Nawama
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Patent number: 5776544Abstract: A charging device for charging a movable object to be charged. A charging member contacts the object to be charged. A power source applies a voltage to the charging member, wherein the power spectrum PS satisfies the following relation when the space frequency of the profile of the surface of the charging member is analyzed.In the section of 10.ltoreq.f.ltoreq.100 (cycles/mm):PS.ltoreq.-2.5.times.log(f/2)(.mu.m.sup.2)In this way, the charging device prevents charge unevenness due to undulations on the surface of the charging member and charges uniformly while generating very little ozone.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1996Date of Patent: July 7, 1998Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Teruyuki Naka, Yoshio Umeda, Toshiki Yamamura, Akira Kumon, Seiichi Suzuki, Junichi Nawama, Hisanori Nagase
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Patent number: 5634179Abstract: A charging device for charging a moving photoconductor. The charging device includes a charging member, an electric power supply for applying a voltage to the charging member, and a light exposing device, such as a LED for exposing surfaces of the charging member and the photoconductor in a closing region where the surfaces of the charging member and the photoconductor move closer to each other. The charging member is a blade having a transparent layer for guiding a light beam from the LED to the closing region and a shading layer for shading the light beam to a contacting region and a separating region. The contacting region is where the surfaces of the charging member and the photoconductor contact, and the separating region is where the surfaces of the charging member and the photoconductor gradually separate from each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 1994Date of Patent: May 27, 1997Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshio Umeda, Teruyuki Naka, Toshiki Yamamura, Seiichi Suzuki, Junichi Nawama
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Patent number: 5565975Abstract: A color image forming apparatus forming toner images of yellow, magenta, cyanogen and black respectively by rotational movement of different image forming units is described. The toner images are transferred to and superimposed on an intermediate transfer belt and then re-transferred to a paper sheet by pressing a transfer roller on the intermediate transfer belt via the paper sheet. A rotational axis of the transfer roller is immovable, and a potential of the transfer roller is electrically floated while the toner images are transferred to the intermediate transfer belt.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: October 15, 1996Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Kumon, Junichi Nawama
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Patent number: 5548380Abstract: A charging device for charging a movable object to be charged. A charging member contacts the object to be charged. A power source applies a voltage to the charging member, wherein the power spectrum PS satisfies the following relation when the space frequency of the profile of the surface of the charging member is analyzed.In the section of 10.ltoreq.f.ltoreq.100 (cycles/mm):PS.ltoreq.-2.5.times.log (f/2)(.mu.m.sup.2)In this way, the charging device prevents charge unevenness due to undulations on the surface of the charging member and charges uniformly while generating very little ozone.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 1994Date of Patent: August 20, 1996Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Teruyuki Naka, Yoshio Umeda, Toshiki Yamamura, Akira Kumon, Seiichi Suzuki, Junichi Nawama, Hisanori Nagase
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Patent number: 5381214Abstract: A charging member for charging a photosensitive member from above toner in an electrophotographic process in which charging, exposure, development, and transfer steps are performed repeatedly and in which a step of cleaning toner remaining on a photosensitive member is eliminated, the charging member including: an electrically conductive charging wire which is disposed in contact with the photosensitive member; the charging wire forming an angle of less than 90.degree. with a direction of a rotational axis of the photosensitive member and is arranged at an interval in the direction of the rotational axis of the photosensitive member; and a power source for applying a pulse voltage to the charging wire, the pulse voltage having a polarity identical with that of the toner so as to vibrate the toner.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 1993Date of Patent: January 10, 1995Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Kumon, Katsutoshi Ogawa, Masaichiro Tatekawa, Hitoshi Hisada, Junichi Nawama, Noboru Katakabe, Masahiro Aizawa