Patents by Inventor Keisuke Samejima
Keisuke Samejima 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: 11474458Abstract: A control circuit executes voltage adjustment processing of adjusting a voltage output from a transfer power source so that a current detected by a detection circuit becomes a predetermined current value. The voltage adjustment processing is executed before a toner image is transferred from at least one of a first image bearing member and a second image bearing member to an intermediate transfer belt. A processor determines whether the second transfer member is in a state of contact or is in a state of separation on the basis of behavior of the current detected by the detection circuit in a period in which the control circuit is executing the voltage adjustment processing.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryo Matsumura, Keisuke Samejima, Keizo Kojima, Taro Minobe
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Publication number: 20210278786Abstract: A control circuit executes voltage adjustment processing of adjusting a voltage output from a transfer power source so that ae current detected by a detection circuit becomes a predetermined current value. The voltage adjustment processing is executed before a toner image is transferred from at least one of a first image bearing member and a second image bearing member to an intermediate transfer belt. A processor determines whether the second transfer member is in a state of contact or is in a state of separation on the basis of behavior of the current detected by the detection circuit in a period in which the control circuit is executing the voltage adjustment processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2021Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventors: Ryo Matsumura, Keisuke Samejima, Keizo Kojima, Taro Minobe
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Patent number: 10459361Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a voltage adjustment portion having a voltage adjustment member connected to a contact member contacting an endless belt, the voltage adjustment portion changing a current flowing from a current supply member contacting the belt at a position different from a position, at which an image bearing member contacts the belt with respect to a rotating direction of the belt, to the voltage adjustment member via the belt according to a control signal input from a control portion outputting a control signal, thereby changing a size of a transfer potential to transfer a toner image borne by the image bearing member onto the belt at a part at which the belt contacts the image bearing member.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2017Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Seiji Saito, Keisuke Ishizumi, Toshihiko Takayama, Masaru Ohno, Shingo Ito, Shohei Ishio, Keisuke Samejima, Keizo Kojima, Ryo Matsumura
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Patent number: 9989903Abstract: Provided is a fixing apparatus for fixing a toner image on a recording material while conveying the recording material on which the toner image has been formed at a nip portion that includes a roller, a heating unit configured to heat the roller from outside the roller, the heating unit receiving power supplied from a power supply, a backup unit forming the nip portion with the roller, and a power shutdown member configured to operate in response to an abnormal temperature of the backup unit and shut down power supply to the heating unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2017Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takanori Mitani, Akimichi Suzuki, Satoshi Nishida, Isamu Takeda, Kazuhiro Doda, Keisuke Samejima, Hiroshi Yadoiwa
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Publication number: 20180039198Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a voltage adjustment portion having a voltage adjustment member connected to a contact member contacting an endless belt, the voltage adjustment portion changing a current flowing from a current supply member contacting the belt at a position different from a position, at which an image bearing member contacts the belt in a rotating direction of the belt, to the voltage adjustment member via the belt according to a control signal input from a control portion outputting a control signal, thereby changing a size of a transfer potential—a surface potential—to transfer a toner image borne by the image bearing member onto the belt at a part at which the belt contacts the image bearing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2017Publication date: February 8, 2018Inventors: Seiji Saito, Keisuke Ishizumi, Toshihiko Takayama, Masaru Ohno, Shingo Ito, Shohei Ishio, Keisuke Samejima, Keizo Kojima, Ryo Matsumura
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Publication number: 20170343931Abstract: Provided is a fixing apparatus for fixing a toner image on a recording material while conveying the recording material on which the toner image has been formed at a nip portion that includes a roller, a heating unit configured to heat the roller from outside the roller, the heating unit receiving power supplied from a power supply, a backup unit forming the nip portion with the roller, and a power shutdown member configured to operate in response to an abnormal temperature of the backup unit and shut down power supply to the heating unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2017Publication date: November 30, 2017Inventors: Takanori Mitani, Akimichi Suzuki, Satoshi Nishida, Isamu Takeda, Kazuhiro Doda, Keisuke Samejima, Hiroshi Yadoiwa
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Patent number: 9709935Abstract: Provided is a fixing apparatus for fixing a toner image on a recording material while conveying the recording material on which the toner image has been formed at a nip portion that includes a roller, a heating unit configured to heat the roller from outside the roller, the heating unit receiving power supplied from a power supply, a backup unit forming the nip portion with the roller, and a power shutdown member configured to operate in response to an abnormal temperature of the backup unit and shut down power supply to the heating unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takanori Mitani, Akimichi Suzuki, Satoshi Nishida, Isamu Takeda, Kazuhiro Doda, Keisuke Samejima, Hiroshi Yadoiwa
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Patent number: 9621061Abstract: The power supply apparatus for obtaining a direct current from an alternating voltage source includes a first DC/DC converter for outputting a first direct current and a second DC/DC converter for a second direct current lower than the first direct current from the first DC/DC converter, and the output voltage of the first DC/DC converter is changed to a lower direct current and the second DC/DC converter is driven in a continuously-conducting state.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2013Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Minoru Hayasaki, Keisuke Samejima
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Publication number: 20160349680Abstract: Provided is a fixing apparatus for fixing a toner image on a recording material while conveying the recording material on which the toner image has been formed at a nip portion that includes a roller, a heating unit configured to heat the roller from outside the roller, the heating unit receiving power supplied from a power supply, a backup unit forming the nip portion with the roller, and a power shutdown member configured to operate in response to an abnormal temperature of the backup unit and shut down power supply to the heating unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2016Publication date: December 1, 2016Inventors: Takanori Mitani, Akimichi Suzuki, Satoshi Nishida, Isamu Takeda, Kazuhiro Doda, Keisuke Samejima, Hiroshi Yadoiwa
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Patent number: 8977157Abstract: A switching power supply includes a transformer, a switching unit configured to switch a voltage input to the primary side of the transformer, a control unit configured to control the operation of the switching unit, and a detection unit configured to detect as a voltage a current flowing through the primary side of the transformer and supply the voltage to the control unit, wherein the detection unit controls the voltage to be supplied to the control unit based on the operating state of the switching unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2012Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Odate, Keisuke Samejima
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Patent number: 8976545Abstract: A current resonance power supply includes a current detecting unit detecting a current flowing through a primary side of a transformer and a current compensating unit compensating the current detected by the current detecting unit in accordance with a variation in voltage input into the primary side of the transformer. The current resonance power supply detects overcurrent on the basis of an output from the current compensating unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2011Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Keisuke Samejima, Takayuki Fukutani
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Patent number: 8891997Abstract: A power supply apparatus determines that an input AC voltage has reached a voltage at which a power supply control IC can start operating, based on the voltage at an auxiliary winding of a transformer included in a first converter. Note that since the first converter operates so as to maintain a constant voltage at the auxiliary winding, whether the input AC voltage has fallen to an operation lower limit voltage or lower cannot be detected by only monitoring the voltage at the auxiliary winding. The power supply apparatus monitors a second voltage that is proportional to the input AC voltage is generated from the voltage being applied to the primary side of a second converter. Accordingly, the power supply control IC starts and stops operating in accordance with the input AC voltage.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2012Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Keisuke Samejima, Keizo Kojima
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Patent number: 8634214Abstract: A current resonance power supply includes a transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding, two switching elements connected to one end of the primary winding of the transformer and arranged in series, a resonance capacitor connected to the other end of the primary winding, and a voltage detection unit connected between the one end of the primary winding and the two switching elements and configured to detect that AC voltage input to a primary side of the transformer becomes lower, wherein operations of the switching elements are controlled based on a detection result of the voltage detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2011Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Keisuke Samejima
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Publication number: 20130307917Abstract: The power supply apparatus for obtaining a direct current from an alternating voltage source includes a first DC/DC converter for outputting a first direct current and a second DC/DC converter for a second direct current lower than the first direct current from the first DC/DC converter, and the output voltage of the first DC/DC converter is changed to a lower direct current and the second DC/DC converter is driven in a continuously-conducting state.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Minoru Hayasaki, Keisuke Samejima
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Patent number: 8503197Abstract: The power supply apparatus for obtaining a direct current from an alternating voltage source includes a first DC/DC converter for outputting a first direct current and a second DC/DC converter for a second direct current lower than the first direct current from the first DC/DC converter, and the output voltage of the first DC/DC converter is changed to a lower direct current and the second DC/DC converter is driven in a continuously-conducting state.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2009Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Minoru Hayasaki, Keisuke Samejima
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Publication number: 20120301172Abstract: A switching power supply includes a transformer, a switching unit configured to switch a voltage input to the primary side of the transformer, a control unit configured to control the operation of the switching unit, and a detection unit configured to detect as a voltage a current flowing through the primary side of the transformer and supply the voltage to the control unit, wherein the detection unit controls the voltage to be supplied to the control unit based on the operating state of the switching unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2012Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Odate, Keisuke Samejima
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Patent number: 8284578Abstract: The DC power supply apparatus includes a switching operation control part that is provided between a current detection part to detect a current flowing through a primary coil of a transformer and a control part to control the operation of a switching part and controls the operation of the switching part according to an output voltage so that consumption power in a low-load state can be further reduced.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2010Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Keisuke Samejima
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Patent number: 8242873Abstract: The transformer includes: first and second cores each including a magnetic center leg and a magnetic outer leg positioned outside of the magnetic center leg; a first adhesion part that adheres the magnetic center leg of the first core and the magnetic center leg of the second core to each other; a second adhesion part that adheres the magnetic outer leg of the first core and the magnetic outer leg of the second core to each other; a bobbin inserted through the magnetic center leg of the first core and the magnetic center leg of the second core, a primary coil and a secondary coil being wound on the bobbin; and an elastic member that applies pressure to the magnetic outer leg of the first core and the magnetic outer leg of the second core in a neighborhood of the second adhesion part, in an inward direction of the transformer.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2010Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Minoru Hayasaki, Keisuke Samejima
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Publication number: 20110293313Abstract: A current resonance power supply includes a transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding, two switching elements connected to one end of the primary winding of the transformer and arranged in series, a resonance capacitor connected to the other end of the primary winding, and a voltage detection unit connected between the one end of the primary winding and the two switching elements and configured to detect that AC voltage input to a primary side of the transformer becomes lower, wherein operations of the switching elements are controlled based on a detection result of the voltage detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Keisuke Samejima
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Publication number: 20110261592Abstract: A current resonance power supply includes a current detecting unit detecting a current flowing through a primary side of a transformer and a current compensating unit compensating the current detected by the current detecting unit in accordance with a variation in voltage input into the primary side of the transformer. The current resonance power supply detects overcurrent on the basis of an output from the current compensating unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2011Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keisuke Samejima, Takayuki Fukutani