Patents by Inventor Koji Abe

Koji Abe 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: 20210072696
    Abstract: A drum cartridge including a photosensitive drum, a drum frame configured to retain the photosensitive drum and to accept a developing cartridge including a toner memory, which stores information concerning the developing cartridge, a first connector electrically connectable with the toner memory in the developing cartridge under a condition where the developing cartridge is attached to the drum frame, a relay board electrically connectable with the first connector, a second connector electrically connectable with a connector in an image forming apparatus and with the toner memory through the relay board, and a thermistor electrically connectable with the relay board, is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji ABE, Keita INOUE
  • Patent number: 10942465
    Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle that contains a binder resin and a wax; in a microcompression test under a maximum load condition of 1.1×10?3 N, a force applied to the toner particle when a percentage deformation of the toner particle with reference to a number-average particle diameter of the toner particle at 25° C. reaches 15% is 0.10 to 1.00 mN and the force applied to the toner particle when the percentage deformation at 45° C. reaches 15% is 0.10 to 0.40 mN; and when the force applied to the toner particle is a variable and the percentage deformation of the toner particle is from 15 to 30%, the rate of increase in the percentage deformation of the toner particle at 25° C. and the rate of increase in the percentage deformation of the toner particle at 45° C. satisfy specific formula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shohei Kototani, Kentaro Yamawaki, Koji Abe, Tomonori Matsunaga, Masamichi Sato
  • Patent number: 10928770
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a top cover configured to cover a part of an opening of a housing; a front cover configured to cover a part of the remaining of the opening; a toner cartridge; and a drum cartridge, wherein in a state where the front cover is located at the opened position, the drum cartridge having the toner cartridge mounted thereto is mountable and demountable to and from the housing, whereas the drum cartridge is prevented from being mounted and demounted to and from the housing in a state where the front cover is located at the closed position, wherein when the top cover is located at the opened position, the toner cartridge is mountable and demountable to and from the drum cartridge, and wherein when the top cover is located at the closed position, the toner cartridge is prevented from being demounted from the drum cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koji Abe
  • Publication number: 20210032809
    Abstract: A dyeing system includes a conveyance device, a reader, a dye fixing device, and a controller. The conveyance device conveys a conveyance unit including the resin body. The reader reads information relating to the conveyance unit. The dye fixing device heats the resin body in the conveyance unit conveyed by the conveyance device and fixes a dye adhering to a surface of the resin body, on the resin body. The controller acquires a parameter for a process executed to the resin body in the conveyance unit, based on the information read by the reader. The controller controls the dye fixing device based on the acquired parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryoji SHIBATA, Minoru INUZUKA, Koji ABE, Motoshi TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10865313
    Abstract: Provided is a resin emulsion for a damping paint, the resin emulsion being capable of contributing to formation of a coating film to which swelling and peeling are unlikely to occur and having favorable mechanical stability. The resin emulsion for a damping paint contains a (meth)acrylic resin particle including a particle obtained by polymerizing a monomer component containing 50% by mass or more of a (meth)acrylic acid ester and an adsorbed protective layer obtained by allowing a polycarboxylic acid-based polymer compound having a structural unit derived from a carboxylic acid, or a salt or anhydride thereof to be adsorbed onto the surface of the particle. The (meth)acrylic resin particle has a ratio of an average particle diameter DA by means of a laser diffraction/scattering method to an average particle diameter DB by means of a dynamic light scattering method, DA/DB, of less than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Saiden Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Abe, Kenichiro Ishimoto
  • Patent number: 10868336
    Abstract: The present invention provides a non-aqueous electrolytic solution for a lithium secondary battery or a lithium ion capacitor, wherein the non-aqueous electrolytic solution includes a lithium salt as dissolved in a non-aqueous solvent in a concentration of 0.8 to 1.5 M (mol/L), the non-aqueous solvent includes, in relation to the whole of the non-aqueous solvent, 5 to 25% by volume of ethylene carbonate, 5 to 25% by volume of propylene carbonate, 20 to 30% by volume of dimethyl carbonate, 20 to 40% by volume of methyl ethyl carbonate, and 10 to 20% by volume of a fluorinated chain ester; the total content of ethylene carbonate and propylene carbonate in the non-aqueous solvent is 20 to 30% by volume, the total content of dimethyl carbonate and the fluorinated chain ester in the non-aqueous solvent is 30 to 40% by volume; and the flash point of the non-aqueous electrolytic solution is 20° C. or higher, and the present invention also provides an energy storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Abe, Makoto Babazono, Masahide Kondo, Hiroshi Yanagi, Kei Shimamoto
  • Patent number: 10859972
    Abstract: A drum cartridge includes: a drum frame to which a developing cartridge is attachable; a photosensitive drum; and a first storage medium. The drum frame has one end portion and another end portion spaced apart from the one end portion in a first direction. The photosensitive drum is rotatable about a first axis extending in a second direction and is positioned at the one end portion of the drum cartridge. The first storage medium includes a first electrical contact surface. The first storage medium is positioned at an outer surface of the drum frame, the outer surface being exposed in a state where the developing cartridge is attached to the drum frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Abe, Naoya Kamimura
  • Patent number: 10804449
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a package includes molding a precursor of a package including a cup-shaped resin component having a bottom surface and side walls, an opening opened at an upper part of the side walls, and a pair of leads exposed on the bottom surface. The side walls include a side wall that extends along the Y axis and the X axis and that has a first outer surface, and a side wall that extends along the Y axis and the Z axis. A thickness of the side wall extending along Y axis and the X axis is less than a thickness of the side wall extending along axis and the Z axis. The first outer surface has a recess which is recessed in the Z axis direction and arranged in a position corresponding to the opening. The method further includes forming a reflective film in the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Abe, Tomohisa Kishimoto
  • Publication number: 20200307131
    Abstract: A method of producing a photochromic resin body includes a first step, a second step and a third step. In the first step, a sublimable photochromic dye having sublimability is applied to a base body so as to obtain a function-adding base body. In the second step, the function-adding base body obtained in the first step is set to face a resin body, the function-adding base body is heated to sublimate the sublimable photochromic dye applied to the function-adding base body, and the sublimable photochromic dye is deposited on the resin body. In the third step, the resin body on which the sublimable photochromic dye is deposited in the second step is heated to fix the sublimable photochromic dye on the resin body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru INUZUKA, Koji Abe, Takahisa Shibamoto
  • Patent number: 10773313
    Abstract: A turret tool rest includes a main shaft, a turret turning shaft, a turret, a joint base, a mill housing connection shaft, and an engagement member. The main shaft rotates a tool. A part of the main shaft is provided in the turret turning shaft. The turret turning shaft has a first coupling hole. The turret is connected to the turret turning shaft via which the turret is rotated. The joint base has a second coupling hole. The mill housing connection shaft is connected to the joint base. The mill housing connection shaft is provided between the main shaft and the turret turning shaft. Each of the mill housing connection shaft, the joint base, the part of the main shaft, and the turret turning shaft are disposed to rotate around a rotation axis of the turret. The engagement member moves in the first coupling hole and the second coupling hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: YAMAZAKI MAZAK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kijima, Koji Abe, Koichi Kawamura, Takuya Il
  • Publication number: 20200278477
    Abstract: A method of producing a hard-coated resin body includes a first step of applying a hard coating agent to a base body to obtain a function-adding base body, a second step of setting the function-adding base body obtained in the first step to face a resin body, of heating the function-adding base body to evaporate the hard coating agent applied to the function-adding base body, and of depositing the hard coating agent on the resin body, and a third step of curing the hard coating agent on the resin body on which the hard coating agent is deposited in the second step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira TEZUKA, Minoru INUZUKA, Koji ABE
  • Patent number: 10741733
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a package having a recess, a light emitting element disposed in the recess, a translucent sealing material provided in the recess to encapsulate the light emitting element, and a film provided on the translucent sealing material. The film has a contact surface to contact the translucent sealing material and an outer surface opposite to the contact surface. The film includes a translucent base material and two or more layers of particles stacked in the translucent base material between the contact surface and the outer surface. At least one of the particles is exposed in a vicinity of the outer surface of the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Abe, Yasushi Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20200233335
    Abstract: A developing cartridge includes: a casing configured to accommodate therein toner; a developing roller; a supply roller configured to supply the toner to the developing roller; a layer thickness regulation blade in contact with a circumferential surface of the developing roller; a developing electrode electrically connected to the developing roller; and a supply electrode electrically connected to the supply roller and the layer thickness regulation blade. The supply electrode includes: an electrode member electrically connected to a rotation shaft of the supply roller and movable in a direction perpendicular to the rotation shaft; and a connection member in contact with and electrically connecting the electrode member and the layer thickness regulation blade. The electrode member is movable relative to the connection member in the direction perpendicular to the rotation shaft in a state where the electrode member is in contact with the connection member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi FUKAYA, Tomoya ICHIKAWA, Koji ABE, Naoya KAMIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200231436
    Abstract: Chlorine dioxide gas is immediately generated at a stable concentration from a liquid composition. The composition is obtained by mixing an aqueous chlorite solution, an activator that immediately adjusts the pH of the aqueous chlorite solution, an activation inhibitor that slowly mitigates an action of the activator, and a metal iodide such that the metal iodide is contained in a proportion of 0.4% by mass or less and the activation inhibitor is contained in a proportion of 1% by mass or less with respect to 1 L of 1% by mass aqueous chlorite solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Koji ABE, Tsukasa ABE
  • Patent number: 10717893
    Abstract: A mobile phone including a touch panel including a base material; a sensing region including at least one electrode provided over the base material; and a frame region provided at a periphery of the sensing region, the frame region including metal wiring provided over the base material and being electrically connected to the at least one electrode; and a cured product of a photosensitive resin composition disposed at least on the metal wiring, the photosensitive resin composition contains a component (A): a binder polymer, a component (B): a photopolymerizable compound, and a component (C): a photopolymerization initiator; and the component (B) includes a di(meth)acrylate compound having at least one selected from the group consisting of a dicyclopentanyl structure and a dicyclopentenyl structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI CHEMICAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Mayumi Sato, Koji Abe, Hideo Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20200216314
    Abstract: Chlorine dioxide gas is generated at a stable concentration from a liquid composition. The composition is obtained by mixing an aqueous chlorite solution, an activator that immediately adjusts a pH of the aqueous chlorite solution, thereby causing the aqueous chlorite solution to generate chlorine dioxide gas, and an activation inhibitor that slowly mitigates an action of the activator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Koji ABE, Tsukasa ABE
  • Patent number: 10649395
    Abstract: A developing cartridge may include a housing including an outer surface, a small-diameter gear, a large-diameter gear, a first gear, and a moving member. The small-diameter gear may include a first engaging portion positioned on at least a portion of a peripheral surface of the small-diameter gear. The large-diameter gear may be positioned farther from the outer surface than the small-diameter gear from the outer surface. The large-diameter gear may be rotatable together with the small-diameter gear. The first gear may include a second engaging portion, a first end surface, a second end surface, and at least one protrusion. The moving member may include a contact portion configured to move the moving member from one position to another position in a state where the contact portion is in contact with the protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuna Taguchi, Koji Abe, Motoaki Mushika, Yasuo Fukamachi
  • Patent number: 10649366
    Abstract: A developing cartridge includes: a casing configured to accommodate therein toner; a developing roller; a supply roller configured to supply the toner to the developing roller; a layer thickness regulation blade in contact with a circumferential surface of the developing roller; a developing electrode electrically connected to the developing roller; and a supply electrode electrically connected to the supply roller and the layer thickness regulation blade. The supply electrode includes: an electrode member electrically connected to a rotation shaft of the supply roller and movable in a direction perpendicular to the rotation shaft; and a connection member in contact with and electrically connecting the electrode member and the layer thickness regulation blade. The electrode member is movable relative to the connection member in the direction perpendicular to the rotation shaft in a state where the electrode member is in contact with the connection member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Fukaya, Tomoya Ichikawa, Koji Abe, Naoya Kamimura
  • Publication number: 20200124998
    Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle that contains a binder resin and a wax; in a microcompression test under a maximum load condition of 1.1×10?3 N, a force applied to the toner particle when a percentage deformation of the toner particle with reference to a number-average particle diameter of the toner particle at 25° C. reaches 15% is 0.10 to 1.00 mN and the force applied to the toner particle when the percentage deformation at 45° C. reaches 15% is 0.10 to 0.40 mN; and when the force applied to the toner particle is a variable and the percentage deformation of the toner particle is from 15 to 30%, the rate of increase in the percentage deformation of the toner particle at 25° C. and the rate of increase in the percentage deformation of the toner particle at 45° C. satisfy specific formula.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Shohei Kototani, Kentaro Yamawaki, Koji Abe, Tomonori Matsunaga, Masamichi Sato
  • Patent number: 10597818
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a dye-attached substrate provided with a dye section that includes a sublimable dye to be deposited on a resin body includes a printing step of printing a plurality of units of the dye sections, the dye section for dyeing one resin body or one set of resin bodies constituting one unit, lined up in a longitudinal direction of a long thin substrate, by discharging ink that includes the sublimable dye on the substrate using a printing device, a piece creating step of creating a piece of the substrate that includes the plurality of units of the dye sections, by cutting the substrate on which the dye section is printed, and a drying step of drying the ink of the plurality of units of the dye sections included in the piece of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Inuzuka, Hirokazu Hyodo, Koji Abe