Patents by Inventor Kazuyuki Fukushima
Kazuyuki Fukushima 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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Publication number: 20240142151Abstract: A compressor includes: a compressor body that suctions and compresses a gas to be compressed; heat exchangers that circulate a cooled target inside the heat exchangers to cool the cooled target; a fan that is driven by a fan motor and that sends a cooling gas to the heat exchangers to remove heat; a temperature sensor that detects an initial cooling gas temperature that is a temperature of the cooling gas not having been subject to heat removing for the heat exchangers; and a control unit that is capable of setting an upper limit frequency that is an upper limit for controlling a rotational frequency of the fan motor. The control unit sets the upper limit frequency to a rotational frequency equal to or lower than a frequency at which current at an acceptable current level is supplied to the fan motor, at each of the initial cooling gas temperatures detected by the temperature sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: KOBELCO COMPRESSORS CORPORATIONInventors: Yosuke FUKUSHIMA, Koki TAKEUCHI, Katsunori HAMADA, Kazuyuki YODA
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Patent number: 11970018Abstract: It is an object to provide a trimmer that can trim a fore-edge portion of a bound material except a cover and that can be excellent in productivity and cost. A cover has flap portions adjacent to the fore-edge portion of the bound material, a trimmer includes: a trim cutter that trims the bound material; a blade receiving portion that receives an edge of the trim cutter; a base portion and a pressure portion that nip and position the bound material; and a pair of guide portions arranged for movement in a direction close to or away from the bound material, wherein the guide portions are inserted between the book block and the cover so as to peel the cover together with the flap portions up when the fore-edge portion of the bound material is trimmed by the trim cutter.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Horizon International Inc.Inventors: Osamu Nishimura, Kazuyuki Fukushima, Satoshi Tsunawaki
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Publication number: 20230382670Abstract: Provided is a sheet folding apparatus including: a stacking unit configured to be stacked with a paper stack; a feeding roller configured to come into contact with a surface of the uppermost sheet of the paper stack and feed sheets in a feeding direction; and a sheet separating mechanism configured to separate the uppermost sheet of the paper stack from the remaining sheets. The sheet separating mechanism has a suction unit that sucks and pulls the uppermost sheet of the paper stack upward in upstream in a feeding direction and an injection mechanism that separates the uppermost sheet from the remaining sheets by injecting air toward a predetermined region including an end face in upstream in the feeding direction of the paper stack including the uppermost sheet. The injection mechanism has a rotary injection unit configured to inject air to change a first injection direction oriented to the predetermined region.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Shinya WATANABE, Kazuyuki FUKUSHIMA
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Patent number: 11718120Abstract: Processing units 4 to 6 aligned along the transport path for a sheet bundle S are accommodated in a housing together with transport units 2 and 3. Windows 10a to 10c are provided in the housing front face, and variable-color lighting units 17 are arranged inside the housing. Light emitting surfaces (projection plates 18) of the variable-color lighting units are arranged facing the windows. Sensor units 13, 15a, and 15b that detect an anomaly of an operation of the transport unit and sensor units 14 and 16 that detect an anomaly of the operation of respective processing units are provided. A binding processing unit stops when an anomaly is detected by the sensor unit, when a system error occurs, or when an emergency stop instruction is input. The color of emission light from a light emitting surface changes to indicate the operation status of the binding processing system.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Horizon International, Inc.Inventors: Kazuyuki Fukushima, Tatsuaki Ida
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Patent number: 11717982Abstract: A three side trimmer has a trimming unit 1, an accumulating unit 3, a discharge unit 2 and a conveying mechanism 4 conveying trimmed booklets BK to the accumulating unit. The accumulating unit has a shelf 5 movable in a vertical direction, and a drive roller conveyor 7 on the shelf. The accumulating unit, in a mode, delivers the trimmed booklets to the discharge unit at every accumulation of a predetermined number of the trimmed booklets and, in another mode, accumulates the trimmed booklets without delivering.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: HORIZON INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Kazuyuki Fukushima, Yoshinari Kuwabara, Tatsuaki Ida
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Publication number: 20230116501Abstract: Provided is a cutting apparatus including: a rotary table; a pressing unit; a cutting unit; a drive unit that rotates and moves the rotary table; a transport unit that transports a cut book in a transport direction to a stacking position; and a control unit that controls the drive unit and the transport unit, and the control unit performs, in a switchable manner, a first transport mode to transport a book having edges cut by the cutting unit in the transport direction in a state where the spine was rotated to be arranged in a predetermined direction about a rotation center of the rotary table and a second transport mode to transport a book having edges cut by the cutting unit in the transport direction in a state where the spine was rotated to be arranged in a direction different from the predetermined direction about the rotation center.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Inventors: Satoshi TSUNAWAKI, Kazuyuki FUKUSHIMA, Katsufumi NAKANISHI, Osamu NISHIMURA, Tatsuaki IDA
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Publication number: 20220111675Abstract: Processing units 4 to 6 aligned along the transport path for a sheet bundle S are accommodated in a housing together with transport units 2 and 3. Windows 10a to 10c are provided in the housing front face, and variable-color lighting units 17 are arranged inside the housing. Light emitting surfaces (projection plates 18) of the variable-color lighting units are arranged facing the windows. Sensor units 13, 15a, and 15b that detect an anomaly of an operation of the transport unit and sensor units 14 and 16 that detect an anomaly of the operation of respective processing units are provided. A binding processing unit stops when an anomaly is detected by the sensor unit, when a system error occurs, or when an emergency stop instruction is input. The color of emission light from a light emitting surface changes to indicate the operation status of the binding processing system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2019Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: Horizon International Inc.Inventors: Kazuyuki FUKUSHIMA, Tatsuaki IDA
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Publication number: 20210122077Abstract: A three side trimmer has a trimming unit 1, an accumulating unit 3, a discharge unit 2 and a conveying mechanism 4 conveying trimmed booklets BK to the accumulating unit. The accumulating unit has a shelf 5 movable in a vertical direction, and a drive roller conveyor 7 on the shelf. The accumulating unit, in a mode, delivers the trimmed booklets to the discharge unit at every accumulation of a predetermined number of the trimmed booklets and, in another mode, accumulates the trimmed booklets without delivering.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2021Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicant: HORIZON INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Kazuyuki Fukushima, Yoshinari Kuwabara, Tatsuaki Ida
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Publication number: 20210094337Abstract: It is an object to provide a trimmer that can trim a fore-edge portion of a bound material except a cover and that can be excellent in productivity and cost. A cover has flap portions adjacent to the fore-edge portion of the bound material, a trimmer includes: a trim cutter that trims the bound material; a blade receiving portion that receives an edge of the trim cutter; a base portion and a pressure portion that nip and position the bound material; and a pair of guide portions arranged for movement in a direction close to or away from the bound material, wherein the guide portions are inserted between the book block and the cover so as to peel the cover together with the flap portions up when the fore-edge portion of the bound material is trimmed by the trim cutter.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Osamu Nishimura, Kazuyuki Fukushima, Satoshi Tsunawaki
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Patent number: 10933553Abstract: A three side trimmer has a trimming unit 1, an accumulating unit 3, a discharge unit 2 and a conveying mechanism 4 conveying trimmed booklets BK to the accumulating unit. The accumulating unit has a shelf 5 movable in a vertical direction, and a drive roller conveyor 7 on the shelf. The accumulating unit, in a mode, delivers the trimmed booklets to the discharge unit at every accumulation of a predetermined number of the trimmed booklets and, in another mode, accumulates the trimmed booklets without delivering.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: HORIZON INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Kazuyuki Fukushima, Yoshinari Kuwabara, Tatsuaki Ida
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Publication number: 20200101634Abstract: A trimmer trims a bound material at end portions and/or corner portions of the bound material. The trimmer has a table (2), a pressing unit (4), a trimming mechanism (5) that has a trimming blade (52) and moves the trimming blade (52) to the trimming position, a rotation mechanism (3) that rotates the table (2), a rotation control unit that is operatively connected to the rotation mechanism (3) in such a way that a predetermined trimming line of the bound material positioned parallel to a longitudinal direction of the trimming blade (52), a moving mechanism (6) that moves the trimming mechanism (5) in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the trimming blade (52), and a movement control unit that is operatively connected to the moving mechanism (6) so as to move the trimming mechanism and align the trimming line and the trimming position with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Satoshi TSUNAWAKI, Osamu NISHIMURA, Kazuyuki FUKUSHIMA
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Publication number: 20200047367Abstract: A three side trimmer has a trimming unit 1, an accumulating unit 3, a discharge unit 2 and a conveying mechanism 4 conveying trimmed booklets BK to the accumulating unit. The accumulating unit has a shelf 5 movable in a vertical direction, and a drive roller conveyor 7 on the shelf. The accumulating unit, in a mode, delivers the trimmed booklets to the discharge unit at every accumulation of a predetermined number of the trimmed booklets and, in another mode, accumulates the trimmed booklets without delivering.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2019Publication date: February 13, 2020Applicant: Horizon International Inc.Inventors: Kazuyuki Fukushima, Yoshinari Kuwabara, Tatsuaki Ida
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Patent number: 10189668Abstract: When a length in a conveying direction of a margin to be cut off is shorter than a predetermined distance between a cutting part and a second conveying part, a sheet cutting machine feeds a first sheet to the cutting part using a first conveying part while keeping the second conveying part positioned at a conveying path. When the length is equal to or longer than the predetermined distance, the machine feeds the first sheet to the cutting part using the first conveying part after upwardly retracting the second conveying part from the conveying path using a retracting mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Horizon International Inc.Inventors: Kazuyuki Fukushima, Tatsuaki Ida
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Publication number: 20180118499Abstract: When a length in a conveying direction of a margin to be cut off is shorter than a predetermined distance between a cutting part and a second conveying part, a sheet cutting machine feeds a first sheet to the cutting part using a first conveying part while keeping the second conveying part positioned at a conveying path. When the length is equal to or longer than the predetermined distance, the machine feeds the first sheet to the cutting part using the first conveying part after upwardly retracting the second conveying part from the conveying path using a retracting mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2015Publication date: May 3, 2018Inventors: Kazuyuki FUKUSHIMA, Tatsuaki IDA
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Patent number: 9564893Abstract: A technique reduces erroneous judgment due to effects of noise accompanying PWM control while using PWM control for brightness adjustment of light-emitting diodes disposed proximate of an electrode. An electrode is disposed proximate of operating portions that are subject to touch operations by unit of a conductive body. An operating portion of a light-emitting diode is lightened. A CPU performs brightness adjustment of the light-emitting diode through PWM control. A detecting circuit outputs detected values in accordance with electrostatic capacitances of the electrode. The CPU judges that a touch operation has been made when a difference between a detected value of the detecting circuit and a reference value stored in a RAM is not less than a prescribed value. The CPU stores a detected value that is first detected by the detecting circuit after transition of an executing state of PWM control in the RAM as a reference value.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: U-SHIN LTD.Inventors: Izumi Dohi, Kazuyuki Fukushima
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Patent number: 9344084Abstract: Provided is a touch sensor having a simple structure and enabling a driver to appropriately and quickly manipulate the touch sensor as intended without looking at a manipulation surface of the touch sensor. The touch sensor includes: multiple electrodes; detection means for detecting touch on any of electrodes and for outputting a detection signal for each electrode; touch judgment means for judging whether each of the electrodes is touched or untouched based on the detection signal; a switch having a manipulation button; control mode judgment means for determining a control function for a controlled device in accordance with an input signal transmitted from the switch when the manipulation button is manipulated; and permission means for permitting the touch judgment means to judge touch on each electrode in response to the input signal from the switch.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2012Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: U-SHIN LTD.Inventors: Kazuyuki Fukushima, Tomo Kawase, Tetsuo Tokudome
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Patent number: 8941435Abstract: Techniques reduce erroneous judgment due to effects of noise accompanying PWM control. LEDs light operating portions and function as indicators. Circuitry adjusts brightness of the LEDs through PWM control. A detecting circuit outputs detected values in accordance with electrostatic capacitances of the electrode. A CPU senses a touch operation when a difference between a detected value of the detecting circuit and a reference value is more than a prescribed value. The CPU stores a detected value as a reference value which is the first value detected by the detecting circuit after the PWM control execution state of the LEDs has been changed or the first value that is detected by the detecting circuit, which is comprised by a touch switch that is in a specified positional relationship with respect to the touch switch which executing state of PWM control of the LEDs has changed, after transition of the executing state.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2014Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: U-Shin Ltd.Inventors: Izumi Dohi, Kazuyuki Fukushima
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Publication number: 20150002212Abstract: Techniques reduce erroneous judgment due to effects of noise accompanying PWM control. LEDs light operating portions and function as indicators. Circuitry adjusts brightness of the LEDs through PWM control. A detecting circuit outputs detected values in accordance with electrostatic capacitances of the electrode. A CPU senses a touch operation when a difference between a detected value of the detecting circuit and a reference value is more than a prescribed value. The CPU stores a detected value as a reference value which is the first value detected by the detecting circuit after the PWM control execution state of the LEDs has been changed or the first value that is detected by the detecting circuit, which is comprised by a touch switch that is in a specified positional relationship with respect to the touch switch which executing state of PWM control of the LEDs has changed, after transition of the executing state.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: Izumi Dohi, Kazuyuki Fukushima
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Publication number: 20140320200Abstract: A technique reduces erroneous judgment due to effects of noise accompanying PWM control while using PWM control for brightness adjustment of light-emitting diodes disposed proximate of an electrode. An electrode is disposed proximate of operating portions that are subject to touch operations by unit of a conductive body. An operating portion of a light-emitting diode is lightened. A CPU performs brightness adjustment of the light-emitting diode through PWM control. A detecting circuit outputs detected values in accordance with electrostatic capacitances of the electrode. The CPU judges that a touch operation has been made when a difference between a detected value of the detecting circuit and a reference value stored in a RAM is not less than a prescribed value. The CPU stores a detected value that is first detected by the detecting circuit after transition of an executing state of PWM control in the RAM as a reference value.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: U-SHIN LTD.Inventors: Izumi Dohi, Kazuyuki Fukushima
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Patent number: 8848384Abstract: A power transducer is downsized by reducing the size of a power source board and highly reliable. The power source board is provided in the power transducer and for a large-current circuit. The power transducer includes a power semiconductor module having lead terminals. Of the lead terminals provided for the power semiconductor module and connected with the main circuit board, predetermined one or ones of the lead terminals is or are connected with the main circuit board in the vicinity of a main circuit terminal stage and at a position or positions lower than the main circuit terminal stage. Alternatively, predetermined one or ones of the lead terminals is or are connected with the main circuit board at a position or positions lower than a position at which the main circuit terminal stage is provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2012Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Ibori, Yasushi Sasaki, Yutaka Maeno, Masayuki Hirota, Kazuyuki Fukushima