Patents by Inventor Kazuyoshi Tokunaga

Kazuyoshi Tokunaga 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: 7433075
    Abstract: Invisible information are recorded in the form of pixels invisible to the naked eye and at a print density invisible to the naked eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Ricoh Printing Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Tokunaga, Kazuyuki Mitome, Seiji Kageyama
  • Patent number: 7209256
    Abstract: A printing method for use with a print system including a computer and a printer connected to the computer directly or by way of a network, the method including the steps of: directing the printer to effect printing and storage of a document prepared by the computer in an arbitrary combination of formats; transmitting the document to the printer; effecting receipt by the printer of the document transmitted from the computer; and effecting printing and storage of the document according to the instruction from the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Ricoh Printing Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Kageyama, Katsumi Kumagai, Tatsuro Akabane, Kazuyuki Mitome, Kazuyoshi Tokunaga, Tomoko Kitaura, Masamitsu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20040017583
    Abstract: A printing method for use with a print system including a computer and a printer connected to the computer directly or by way of a network, the method including the steps of: directing the printer to effect printing and storage of a document prepared by the computer in an arbitrary combination of formats; transmitting the document to the printer; effecting receipt by the printer of the document transmitted from the computer; and effecting printing and storage of the document according to the instruction from the computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Applicant: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Kageyama, Katsumi Kumagai, Tatsuro Akabane, Kazuyuki Mitome, Kazuyoshi Tokunaga, Tomoko Kitaura, Masamitsu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6679821
    Abstract: A centrifugal separator includes an input section for allowing a user to enter operating conditions of a centrifugal separation of a sample accommodated in a rotor driven by a motor. A memory of the centrifugal separator stores a user ID code and a corresponding user name which are registered in advance by the user. Operation of the centrifugal separator is allowed when a user ID code entered through the input section agrees with the registered user ID code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi Koko Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Numata, Noriyasu Matsufuji, Hisanobu Oyama, Mitsutoshi Yotsuyanagi, Kazuyoshi Tokunaga, Kahoru Takahashi
  • Patent number: 6567180
    Abstract: A printing method for use with a print system including a computer and a printer connected to the computer directly or by way of a network, the method including the steps of: directing the printer to effect printing and storage of a document prepared by the computer in an arbitrary combination of formats; transmitting the document to the printer; effecting receipt by the printer of the document transmitted from the computer; and effecting printing and storage of the document according to the instruction from the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Kageyama, Katsumi Kumagai, Tatsuro Akabane, Kazuyuki Mitome, Kazuyoshi Tokunaga, Tomoko Kitaura, Masamitsu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20020027674
    Abstract: Invisible information are recorded in the form of pixels invisible to the naked eye and at a print density invisible to the naked eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Publication date: March 7, 2002
    Applicant: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Tokunaga, Kazuyuki Mitome, Seiji Kageyama
  • Patent number: 5841548
    Abstract: A printing apparatus, which includes document data management unit 3 for receiving from a computer document data 5 to be printed and for storing and managing the document data 5, printing unit 1 for printing, on a predetermined sheet of paper, the document data 5 that is output by the document data management unit 3, and document sorting unit 2 for sorting and discharging, onto a sorting tray 22, the sheet of paper that is printed by the printing unit 1, includes: arrangement and editing unit 4 for each destination, for receiving and storing page data for each destination, for employing the page data to calculate a printing number required for each page of a document and for employing the sorting tray 22 for each destination, whereby a printed sheet of a necessary page is discharged onto the sorting tray 22.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Mitome, Kazuyoshi Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 5762598
    Abstract: A fixed-angle rotor, having a centrifuge tube inclined at a predetermined gradient angle with respect to a rotational axis, is used to obtain a sedimentation coefficient of sample particles. In one method, a distance in the centrifugal direction is corrected by the gradient angle .theta. of centrifuge tube 1. Sedimentation coefficient S.sub.20,W is calculated based on the corrected distance, and then the sedimentation coefficient S.sub.20,W is multiplied with sin(.theta.) to obtain a corrected sedimentation coefficient. In another method, a distance in the centrifugal direction is corrected by the gradient angle .theta., and also an angular acceleration .omega..sup.2 is corrected by dividing it by sin(.theta.). And then, the sedimentation coefficient S.sub.20,W is calculated based on thus corrected distance and corrected angular acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter Spragg, David Rickwood, Steven Humphries, Mitsutoshi Yotsuyanagi, Kazuyoshi Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 5675519
    Abstract: In an apparatus and a method for controlling centrifugal separator, simulation is performed, in Steps S1 to S4, for the process before and after change of parameters as centrifugation condition. The results are compared in Step S10, and operation of the centrifugal separator is controlled in Step S11. To obtain the measured data of the specimen, an attachment for analysis 15 is used, and the results are compared with the results of simulation, and parameters are corrected. To display the process in the middle of centrifugation, simulation is performed using the current parameters during operation of centrifugation, and the results are shown by graphic display on a display unit 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1997
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsutoshi Yotsuyanagi, Kazuyoshi Tokunaga, Masataka Morita
  • Patent number: 5342280
    Abstract: A management system for use in a centrifuge equipped with a detachable rotor which is rotatable so as to separate density-different samples by a centrifugal force due to the rotation. The management system is for managing the lifetime of the rotor on the basis of the detection results of an operated-condition detector for detecting operated conditions such as the number of times of rotation, running time and rotational speed of the rotor. The management system includes a data storing device which is provided on the rotor to be rotatable therewith and is composed of a magnetic recording medium to allow keeping data relating to the operated conditions of the rotor. Also included in the management system is a data processing unit coupled through a data reading and writing device such as a magnetic head to the data keeping device and also coupled to the operated-condition detector to be responsive to the operated conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1994
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Company Limited
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Niinai, Akio Nagata, Norihisa Sagawa, Shigeru Shinohara, Eiji Nakayama, Mitsutoshi Yotsuyanagi, Hiroshi Hayasaka, Kazuyoshi Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 4672398
    Abstract: Disclosed is an ink droplet expelling apparatus for expelling an ink droplet in response to an electric signal, compising a printing head provided with one or more ink chambers, electro-mechanical transducers disposed on the printing head corresponding to the ink chambers, and a driving signal generating circuit for producing electric signals for driving the electro-mechanical transducers. The elector-mechanical transducers are distorted by three different driving signals to reduce the volumes of the ink chambers to raise the pressure therein to thereby expel an ink droplet out of a nozzle formed at the front end of the head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1987
    Assignees: Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kuwabara, Yasumasa Matsuda, Masatoshi Kasahara, Kyoji Mukumoto, Kazuyoshi Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 4427755
    Abstract: In a method for electrophotography comprising an electrostatic transfer process, after an electrostatic latent image formed on a surface of a photoconductive and photosensitive member has been developed with toner, the surface of the photoconductive and photosensitive member and a toner image are charged at the same polarity as the electrostatic latent image and thereafter the toner image is electrostatically transferred onto a recording medium to obtain a record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1984
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Tokunaga, Masayasu Anzai
  • Patent number: 4416533
    Abstract: A nonimpact printer in which electric charges are distributed over the surface of an electrophotographic photosensitive drum by a corona charger, the corona charged surface of the drum is exposed to a first information light, the induced latent image is developed by toner of a first color, the corona charged surface of the drum with the developed image of the toner of the first color is again exposed to a second information light, and the secondly induced latent image is developed by toner of a second color, so that a bicolor toner image is formed on the surface of the drum, which is transferred on a printing medium to obtain a print.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1983
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Tokunaga, Masayasu Anzai
  • Patent number: 4374191
    Abstract: An electrostatic photographic method for reversal development using a magnetic brush, with the magnetic brush and photoconductive drum being grounded, and with the development being performed using a dry reversal developer comprising 100 parts by weight of a carrier having ferromagnetic properties and 1 to 10 parts by weight of a toner having a volume specific resistance falling within the range between 3.5.times.10.sup.9 and 1.times.10.sup.11 .OMEGA.-cm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1983
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Mukoh, Hirosada Morishita, Masayasu Anzai, Kazuyoshi Tokunaga, Yasuo Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 4314257
    Abstract: A thermomagnetic recording apparatus, for example, facsimile receiver wherein the surface of a magnetic drum which is uniformly coated with a magnetic material is uniformly magnetized, the magnetized surface is locally heated to a temperature of at least a Curie point in accordance with facsimile signals by means of a thermal recording head, to reduce the coercise force and to invert the polarity of the magnetization, thereby forming a magnetic latent image, and the magnetic latent image is developed with magnetic toner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1982
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Tokunaga, Masayasu Anzai, Nobuyoshi Hoshi, Kiyohiko Tanno