Patents by Inventor Kazutaka SHIBANO

Kazutaka SHIBANO 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: 20240085847
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes plural image holding bodies that are provided for respective colors of toners and hold toner images having the respective colors, an intermediate transfer body onto which the toner images having the respective colors held by the plural image holding bodies are transferred, a waste toner collection unit that collects toners remaining on the intermediate transfer body as a waste toner in a case where the toner images having the respective colors transferred onto the intermediate transfer body are transferred onto a recording material, a waste toner developing unit that uses the waste toner collected by the waste toner collection unit to develop a toner image on an image holding body of the plural image holding bodies or the other image holding body of the plural image holding bodies, and a control unit that performs a control to cause the waste toner developing unit to develop the toner image in a case where a predetermined condition about a ratio of a waste toner having each
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Tatsuya KOYAMA, Ryo WAKAMATSU, Kenta TSUKAHIRA, Kenji SUZUKI, Kazutaka SHIBANO, Daiki KATO, Naoyuki KURITA
  • Patent number: 11929611
    Abstract: A control device that is communicably connected to a user terminal includes a controller, in which the controller is configured to set a virtual space, select one or more virtual spots from a plurality of candidate locations in the virtual space in accordance with associated values with a plurality of users belonging to a real specific region, install a virtual renewable energy power plant at the selected virtual spot in the virtual space, generate image information in which information regarding a real renewable energy power plant that is installed at a real spot corresponding to the selected virtual spot is displayed in association with the installed virtual renewable energy power plant, and transmit the image information to the user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takumi Shibano, Kazutaka Kimura
  • Patent number: 8565622
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming device including: plural image formation sections, a second exposure section, a transfer body, a reading section and an identification section. Each image formation section includes a control section that controls a first exposure section to form an identification image of a color represented by color information in accordance with an image formation instruction. The second exposure section performs exposure onto a charged image-bearing body and forms an electrostatic latent image. An image is formed at the transfer body. The reading section reads an image. The identification section outputs to the plurality of image formation sections an image formation instruction and, on the basis of a duration from the output until the identification image is read by the reading section, identifies a position of the image formation section forming the image of the color instructed by the image formation instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Yoshida, Mamoru Inoue, Hiroshi Hayashi, Atsushi Abe, Kazutaka Shibano, Masaaki Taki
  • Publication number: 20100215382
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming device including: plural image formation sections, a second exposure section, a transfer body, a reading section and an identification section. Each image formation section includes a control section that controls a first exposure section to form an identification image of a color represented by color information in accordance with an image formation instruction. The second exposure section performs exposure onto a charged image-bearing body and forms an electrostatic latent image. An image is formed at the transfer body. The reading section reads an image. The identification section outputs to the plurality of image formation sections an image formation instruction and, on the basis of a duration from the output until the identification image is read by the reading section, identifies a position of the image formation section forming the image of the color instructed by the image formation instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki YOSHIDA, Mamoru INOUE, Hiroshi HAYASHI, Atsushi ABE, Kazutaka SHIBANO, Masaaki TAKI