Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Saito

Kazuhiro 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).

  • Patent number: 10871728
    Abstract: A cleaning device for a rotational body is provided. The cleaning device includes a scraping portion whose edge is pressed against a rotational body to which toner adheres. The scraping portion scrapes the toner off the rotational body. The cleaning device also includes a guide portion that guides a recording medium toward the rotational body, and a guide support portion that supports the guide portion. The guide support portion is disposed at a position separated from the scraping portion in a state in which the guide support portion is pressed by the guide portion that is guiding the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Ogishima, Sota Hara, Kazuhiro Saito, Yukihiro Ichiki, Hiroki Shiba, Akira Shimodaira
  • Publication number: 20200379370
    Abstract: A cleaning device for a rotational body is provided. The cleaning device includes a scraping portion whose edge is pressed against a rotational body to which toner adheres. The scaping portion scrapes the toner off the rotational body. The cleaning device also includes a guide portion that guides a recording medium toward the rotational body, and a guide support portion that supports the guide portion. The guide support portion is disposed at a position separated from the scraping portion in a state in which the guide support portion is pressed by the guide portion that is guiding the recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya OGISHIMA, Sota HARA, Kazuhiro SAITO, Yukihiro ICHIKI, Hiroki SHIBA, Akira SHIMODAIRA
  • Publication number: 20200374481
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus having a first substrate and a second substrate overlaid on each other and including electrically conductive portions is provided. The first substrate includes a photoelectric conversion element, a first portion configured to form part of a first surface, a second portion which is included in an electrically conductive pattern closest to the first portion, and a third portion which is included in an electrically conductive pattern second closest to the first portion. The second substrate includes a fourth portion configured to form part of a second surface, and a circuit. In a planar view with respect to the first surface, an area of the first portion is smaller than an area of the second portion and larger than an area of a portion of the third portion overlaying the second portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Takanori Yamashita, Kazuhiro Saito, Tatsuya Ryoki, Yoshikazu Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10830339
    Abstract: A shift device includes: a shift mechanism that is provided with a shift body that is movable to change a shift position; at least one rotation section that is provided at the shift mechanism and that is rotated about a center axis line of the rotation section; at least one moving section that is provided at the shift mechanism and that is moved; and a detection body that detects a rotation position of the rotation section and detects a movement position of the moving section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Hironori Watanabe, Munetoshi Makimura, Koji Imai, Yohei Nakano, Kazuhiro Saito
  • Publication number: 20200307527
    Abstract: An actuator includes a control part, a first rotation sensor, and a second rotation sensor able to detect rotation of an output shaft. The control part performs a first rotation angle acquisition control for acquiring a target rotation angle of the output shaft when a movable part is moved from the second position to the first position as a first rotation angle. The first rotation angle is a rotation angle of the output shaft that is closer to the second position side than when the movable part abuts the first wall part. In the first rotation angle acquisition control, the control part causes the movable part abuts the first wall part, acquires a rotation angle of the output shaft when the movable part has abutted the first wall part, and calculates the first rotation angle based on the rotation angle of the output shaft that has been acquired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicants: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION, NIDEC ELESYS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro SAITO, Seiji HASHIMOTO, Agato UENO
  • Patent number: 10778920
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus having a first substrate and a second substrate overlaid on each other and including electrically conductive portions is provided. The first substrate includes a photoelectric conversion element, a first portion configured to form part of a first surface, a second portion which is included in an electrically conductive pattern closest to the first portion, and a third portion which is included in an electrically conductive pattern second closest to the first portion. The second substrate includes a fourth portion configured to form part of a second surface, and a circuit. In a planar view with respect to the first surface, an area of the first portion is smaller than an area of the second portion and larger than an area of a portion of the third portion overlaying the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takanori Yamashita, Kazuhiro Saito, Tatsuya Ryoki, Yoshikazu Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10763725
    Abstract: There is provided an electric actuator including a motor part, a deceleration mechanism, an output part, and a housing. The housing has a housing main body and a lid member. An output shaft is positioned at a first corner of the housing. The lid member and the housing main body are fastened by bolts. The bolts include corner bolts positioned at respective corners of the housing other than the first corner and an intermediate position bolt positioned at the intermediate between the first corner and a second corner adjacent to the first corner. In a plane view, the intermediate position bolt is positioned on the side of the planar center with respect to an edge connecting the first corner and the second corner and on the side of an outer edge with respect to an imaginary line connecting the center of the output shaft and the second corner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Saito, Hiroaki Takahashi, Tadayuki Hatsuda
  • Publication number: 20200169265
    Abstract: An analog-to-digital conversion device of the embodiment includes a comparator and a logic circuit including a switch unit and a logic gate unit that receives a signal output from a comparator. The logic gate unit and the switch unit are connected to each other in series between a power supply node and a ground node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Saito, Hideo Kobayashi, Tetsuya Itano
  • Patent number: 10609320
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel region in which pixels are arranged to form rows and columns, control lines each connected to the pixels on a corresponding row, output lines connected to the pixels on a corresponding column, a pixel control unit configured to supply control signals to control the pixels for the control lines, and a signal processing unit configured to select and output a signal output to the output lines. The pixel region includes readout regions each including a block of the pixels arranged on continuous rows and columns, and at least one row includes both of the pixel of the block forming a first readout region and the pixel of the block forming a second readout region. The pixel control unit and the signal processing unit are configured to read out signals of the pixels in a corresponding block sequentially for each of the readout regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukihiro Kuroda, Yoshikazu Yamazaki, Kazuhiro Saito
  • Publication number: 20200066772
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes pixels each of which includes a photoelectric converter configured to generate charges by photoelectric conversion, a holding unit configured to hold charges generated by the photoelectric converter, and a transfer unit configured to transfer charges from the photoelectric converter to the holding unit, and outputs a signal based on charges in the holding unit, a transfer control unit configured to control the transfer unit to transfer charges generated by the photoelectric converter during one exposure period to the holding unit by a variable number, which is one or greater, of transfer operations, an amplifier unit configured to amplify the signal, and a control unit configured to control a gain of the amplifier unit to be a first gain when the number of transfer operations is first number and to be a second gain when the number of transfer operations is a second number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Daisuke Kobayashi, Toru Koizumi, Kazuhiro Saito
  • Publication number: 20200036255
    Abstract: The stator of the stator unit has a stator core in an annular shape along a circumferential direction, an insulator attached to the stator core, and coils attached to the stator core via the insulator. The bus bar unit of the stator unit has a bus bar holder for holding the bus bar on one side in an axial direction of the insulator. The bus bar has a terminal part extending closer to the one side in the axial direction than the bus bar holder and a coil connection part connected to a coil lead wire drawn from the coils to the one side in the axial direction. One of the bus bar holder and the insulator has claw parts protruding in the radial direction, and the other of them has a hooking part to which the claw parts are hooked and fixed in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHIRAI, Shuichi KINJO, Kazuhiro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20200007002
    Abstract: An electric actuator includes: a motor; a first case accommodating the motor; a second case located on one side in an axial direction of the first case; a bearing holder fixed to the first case; and a first bearing held by the bearing holder. The first case has a wall part covering the other side in the axial direction of a stator and having a through hole. The bearing holder has: a holder cylindrical part holding the first bearing and inserted into the through hole; and a holder flange part fixed to the wall part. An inner diameter of the through hole is larger than an outer diameter of the holder cylindrical part. At least a part of a radially outer surface of the holder cylindrical part in a circumferential direction is located in a position radially inside and away from a radially inner surface of the through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHIRAI, Shuichi KINJO, Kazuhiro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20200007010
    Abstract: One aspect of an electric actuator of the disclosure includes: a motor having a motor shaft rotating about a central axis; a speed reduction mechanism connected to a portion on one side in an axial direction of the motor shaft; a case accommodating the motor and the speed reduction mechanism; an output part to which rotation of the motor shaft is transmitted via the speed reduction mechanism; a rotation detector having a rotation sensor detecting rotation of the output part; and a wiring member electrically connected with the rotation sensor. The case has a first concave part located on an outer surface of the case. One end part of the wiring member penetrates the case from inside the case and protrudes inside the first concave part. The rotation sensor is located inside the first concave part and connected with one end part of the wiring member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHIRAI, Yutaka UEMATSU, Kazuhiro SAITO, Shuichi KINJO, Toshihiko AKIBA, Koichi ISHIGE
  • Patent number: 10504949
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes pixels each of which includes a photoelectric converter configured to generate charges by photoelectric conversion, a holding unit configured to hold charges generated by the photoelectric converter, and a transfer unit configured to transfer charges from the photoelectric converter to the holding unit, and outputs a signal based on charges in the holding unit, a transfer control unit configured to control the transfer unit to transfer charges generated by the photoelectric converter during one exposure period to the holding unit by a variable number, which is one or greater, of transfer operations, an amplifier unit configured to amplify the signal, and a control unit configured to control a gain of the amplifier unit to be a first gain when the number of transfer operations is first number and to be a second gain when the number of transfer operations is a second number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Kobayashi, Toru Koizumi, Kazuhiro Saito
  • Patent number: 10505430
    Abstract: Provided is a rotor of a brushed motor capable of reducing the occurrence of contamination during press-fitting of a commutator onto a knurling and reducing defect factors due to rotor contamination to improve productivity. In a rotor of a brushed motor having a commutator press-fitted onto a knurling of a shaft, an inclined surface is provided on an inner circumferential side of the commutator, and an angle of the inclined surface is configured to be smaller than an angle of an axial end portion of the knurling. The knurling may be configured to be at a position different from a shaft stepped end surface of the shaft and the knurling may be configured to be positioned axially inward of the commutator from an end surface of the commutator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems Engineering, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sachio Kawada, Kouichi Kuniyasu, Kazuhiro Saito
  • Patent number: 10469762
    Abstract: An image pickup device, an image pickup system, and a movable body that include a conductive line in which a potential changes in a direction opposite to a direction of a change in a potential of a control line used to perform a global electronic shutter operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Kobayashi, Itsutaku Sano, Kazuhiro Saito
  • Publication number: 20190319511
    Abstract: There is provided an electric actuator including a motor part, a deceleration mechanism, an output part, and a housing. The housing has a housing main body and a lid member. An output shaft is positioned at a first corner of the housing. The lid member and the housing main body are fastened by bolts. The bolts include corner bolts positioned at respective corners of the housing other than the first corner and an intermediate position bolt positioned at the intermediate between the first corner and a second corner adjacent to the first corner. In a plane view, the intermediate position bolt is positioned on the side of the planar center with respect to an edge connecting the first corner and the second corner and on the side of an outer edge with respect to an imaginary line connecting the center of the output shaft and the second corner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro SAITO, Hiroaki TAKAHASHI, Tadayuki HATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20190297205
    Abstract: A friction member that abuts against a rotating member being fixed to a display portion and that stops the rotating member being fixed to a display portion by frictional resistance of an abutting surface accommodates the rotating member into a predetermined accommodating position in a reliable manner by changing a frictional force of the friction member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Saito
  • Patent number: 10375254
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image formers each capable of forming, on a sheet, an overlap image and a non-overlap image, a fixer that fixes, on the sheet, a whole image composed of the overlap images and the non-overlap images, and a hardware processor that controls each of the plurality of image formers such that a difference in image at a boundary between the overlap image and the non-overlap image is reduced in the whole image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Natsuko Minegishi, Wataru Watanabe, Hiroshi Morimoto, Keiki Katsumata, Kazuhiro Saito, Hiroki Shibata, Daiki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190211918
    Abstract: A shift device includes: a shift mechanism that is provided with a shift body that is movable to change a shift position; at least one rotation section that is provided at the shift mechanism and that is rotated about a center axis line of the rotation section; at least one moving section that is provided at the shift mechanism and that is moved; and a detection body that detects a rotation position of the rotation section and detects a movement position of the moving section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Hironori WATANABE, Munetoshi MAKIMURA, Koji IMAI, Yohei NAKANO, Kazuhiro SAITO