Patents by Inventor Makoto Fuchigami
Makoto Fuchigami 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: 11803705Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and processor. The memory stores a trouble category into which a trouble occurring in a product is classified and a design-element category into which a design element causing the trouble and included in the product is classified in mutual association and store a design-element category into which a design element included in a product is classified and a design-requirement category into which a design requirement of the design element is classified in association with each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Makoto Fuchigami, Yasuaki Miyazawa, Mari Horie, Hiroshi Murano, Nobukazu Takahashi, Kimihiro Wakabayashi, Masaki Suda, Eiji Ooyama, Hiroaki Murai, Masahiro Ishino
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Patent number: 11215971Abstract: A design support system includes memory, a receiving unit, and an associating unit. The memory stores information on design element classification that classifies a design element included in a product, and information on design requirement classification that classifies a design requirement required for the product. The receiving unit receives technical information regarding a design trouble. The associating unit refers to technical information regarding a design trouble, received by the receiving unit, and associates a classification item in the design requirement classification to which the design trouble belongs and a classification item in the design element classification to which a design element causing the design trouble belongs with each other, along with information on a phenomenon indicating a failure status of the design element included in the technical information.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yasuaki Miyazawa, Makoto Fuchigami, Kimihiro Wakabayashi, Yoshikazu Okamoto, Hiroshi Murano, Nobukazu Takahashi, Masaki Suda, Mari Horie, Naoki Koike, Masao Okubo
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Publication number: 20210319175Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and processor. The memory stores a trouble category into which a trouble occurring in a product is classified and a design-element category into which a design element causing the trouble and included in the product is classified in mutual association and store a design-element category into which a design element included in a product is classified and a design-requirement category into which a design requirement of the design element is classified in association with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2020Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.Inventors: Makoto FUCHIGAMI, Yasuaki MIYAZAWA, Mari HORIE, Hiroshi MURANO, Nobukazu TAKAHASHI, Kimihiro WAKABAYASHI, Masaki SUDA, Eiji OOYAMA, Hiroaki MURAI, Masahiro ISHINO
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Publication number: 20200241504Abstract: A design support system includes memory, a receiving unit, and an associating unit. The memory stores information on design element classification that classifies a design element included in a product, and information on design requirement classification that classifies a design requirement required for the product. The receiving unit receives technical information regarding a design trouble. The associating unit refers to technical information regarding a design trouble, received by the receiving unit, and associates a classification item in the design requirement classification to which the design trouble belongs and a classification item in the design element classification to which a design element causing the design trouble belongs with each other, along with information on a phenomenon indicating a failure status of the design element included in the technical information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2019Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuaki MIYAZAWA, Makoto FUCHIGAMI, Kimihiro WAKABAYASHI, Yoshikazu OKAMOTO, Hiroshi MURANO, Nobukazu TAKAHASHI, Masaki SUDA, Mari HORIE, Naoki KOIKE, Masao OKUBO
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Patent number: 10437657Abstract: A design support system includes a storage unit, an accepting unit, a selecting unit, and an associating unit. The storage unit stores information regarding design element classifications into which design elements constituting a product are classified and design requirement classifications into which design requirements required for the product are classified. The accepting unit accepts technical information regarding a trouble due to design. The selecting unit refers to the technical information regarding the trouble, selects a classification item to which the trouble belongs from among the design requirement classifications, and selects a classification item to which a design element that has caused the trouble belongs from among the design element classifications.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kimihiro Wakabayashi, Yoshikazu Okamoto, Hiroshi Murano, Yasuaki Miyazawa, Mari Horie, Nobukazu Takahashi, Makoto Fuchigami, Masao Okubo
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Patent number: 10174775Abstract: There is provided a fastening target member attached to an attachment member by a fastening member that includes a head and a shaft. The fastening target member has a surface, at least one insertion hole that allows the shaft of the fastening member to be inserted therethrough, and a fastening member removal structure that is formed in the surface of the fastening target member where the head of the fastening member is disposed and that has a pair of grooves. The pair of grooves face each other with the at least one insertion hole interposed therebetween. The pair of grooves are each formed from an inner circumferential side relative to the outer diameter of the head of the fastening member to an outer circumferential side relative to the outer diameter of the head of the fastening member.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Fuchigami, Masataka Konishi, Toshiyuki Miyata
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Publication number: 20180232271Abstract: A design support system includes a storage unit, an accepting unit, a selecting unit, and an associating unit. The storage unit stores information regarding design element classifications into which design elements constituting a product are classified and design requirement classifications into which design requirements required for the product are classified. The accepting unit accepts technical information regarding a trouble due to design. The selecting unit refers to the technical information regarding the trouble, selects a classification item to which the trouble belongs from among the design requirement classifications, and selects a classification item to which a design element that has caused the trouble belongs from among the design element classifications.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2017Publication date: August 16, 2018Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kimihiro WAKABAYASHI, Yoshikazu OKAMOTO, Hiroshi MURANO, Yasuaki MIYAZAWA, Mari HORIE, Nobukazu TAKAHASHI, Makoto FUCHIGAMI, Masao OKUBO
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Patent number: 10018263Abstract: A drive transmission mechanism includes plural gears having meshing teeth and a recessed or projecting portion provided on a side surface of at least one of the gears. The side surface crosses a rotation axis of the at least one of the gears. The recessed or projecting portion is at least one of a cavity and a protrusion having a ridge that extends so as to follow an outline of at least one of the teeth and that serves as a marking for measuring wear of the at least one of the teeth.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2015Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventor: Makoto Fuchigami
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Publication number: 20180051728Abstract: There is provided a fastening target member attached to an attachment member by a fastening member that includes a head and a shaft. The fastening target member has a surface, at least one insertion hole that allows the shaft of the fastening member to be inserted therethrough, and a fastening member removal structure that is formed in the surface of the fastening target member where the head of the fastening member is disposed and that has a pair of grooves. The pair of grooves face each other with the at least one insertion hole interposed therebetween. The pair of grooves are each formed from an inner circumferential side relative to the outer diameter of the head of the fastening member to an outer circumferential side relative to the outer diameter of the head of the fastening member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Applicant: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto FUCHIGAMI, Masataka KONISHI, Toshiyuki MIYATA
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Publication number: 20160258524Abstract: A drive transmission mechanism includes plural gears having meshing teeth and a recessed or projecting portion provided on a side surface of at least one of the gears. The side surface crosses a rotation axis of the at least one of the gears. The recessed or projecting portion is at least one of a cavity and a protrusion having a ridge that extends so as to follow an outline of at least one of the teeth and that serves as a marking for measuring wear of the at least one of the teeth.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2015Publication date: September 8, 2016Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventor: Makoto FUCHIGAMI
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Patent number: 8944797Abstract: A molding apparatus includes a mold having a long cavity; a pinching member that holds a long metal plate having a pair of longitudinal ends, a pair of lateral ends and a pair of surfaces forming a plate shape by pinching the long metal member, the long metal plate being inserted into the cavity such that the longitudinal direction of the long metal plate is directed to a longitudinal direction of the cavity and the long metal plate is positioned at a position offset from a center of the cross-section of the circumferential surface; and an inlet for pouring a resin material into a space defined between the mold and the pinching member, wherein a shape of the space is such that the amounts of the resin material to be poured around the each side of the pair of surfaces of the long metal plate are equivalent.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2011Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazutoshi Misonoo, Makoto Fuchigami
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Patent number: 8655247Abstract: A fixing device includes a heat source, a roller being heated by the heat source, an endless belt that contacts the roller and rotates along with a rotation of the roller, a guiding portion that includes a first resin member being disposed inside the endless belt and guiding a rotation of the endless belt, a pressing portion that includes a second resin member being disposed inside the endless belt and pressing the endless belt on the roller, and a plate member that includes an elongated metal member of which the longitudinal direction is arranged to be parallel to a rotation axis of the roller, a first end and a second end of the elongated metal member in the transverse direction being unified with the first resin member and the second resin member, respectively, wherein the elongated metal member has a part facing the inner surface of the endless belt.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2011Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Fuchigami, Kazutoshi Misonoo
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Patent number: 8594550Abstract: A fixing device includes a heat source, a roller heated by the heat source; an endless belt rotating with the roller; a plate member arranged inside the endless belt; a pressing member attached to one end of the plate member in a lateral direction of the plate member such that a longitudinal direction of the pressing member runs along the longitudinal direction of the plate member, and pressing the endless belt against the roller; and a guide portion including a long member, and attached to the other end of the plate member in a lateral direction of the plate member such that a longitudinal direction of the long member runs along the longitudinal direction of the plate member, and each of the plural ribs fixed to only one of the pressing member and the long member and extending toward another one of the pressing portion and the long member.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2011Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Fuchigami, Kazutoshi Misonoo
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Publication number: 20120242001Abstract: A molding apparatus includes a mold having a long cavity; a pinching member that holds a long metal plate having a pair of longitudinal ends, a pair of lateral ends and a pair of surfaces forming a plate shape by pinching the long metal member, the long metal plate being inserted into the cavity such that the longitudinal direction of the long metal plate is directed to a longitudinal direction of the cavity and the long metal plate is positioned at a position offset from a center of the cross-section of the circumferential surface; and an inlet for pouring a resin material into a space defined between the mold and the pinching member, wherein a shape of the space is such that the amounts of the resin material to be poured around the each side of the pair of surfaces of the long metal plate are equivalent.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2011Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazutoshi MISONOO, Makoto FUCHIGAMI
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Publication number: 20120243921Abstract: A fixing device includes a heat source, a roller heated by the heat source; an endless belt rotating with the roller; a plate member arranged inside the endless belt; a pressing member attached to one end of the plate member in a lateral direction of the plate member such that a longitudinal direction of the pressing member runs along the longitudinal direction of the plate member, and pressing the endless belt against the roller; and a guide portion including a long member, and attached to the other end of the plate member in a lateral direction of the plate member such that a longitudinal direction of the long member runs along the longitudinal direction of the plate member, and each of the plural ribs fixed to only one of the pressing member and the long member and extending toward another one of the pressing portion and the long member.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2011Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto FUCHIGAMI, Kazutoshi MISONOO
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Publication number: 20120243920Abstract: A fixing device includes a heat source, a roller being heated by the heat source, an endless belt that contacts the roller and rotates along with a rotation of the roller, a guiding portion that includes a first resin member being disposed inside the endless belt and guiding a rotation of the endless belt, a pressing portion that includes a second resin member being disposed inside the endless belt and pressing the endless belt on the roller, and a plate member that includes an elongated metal member of which the longitudinal direction is arranged to be parallel to a rotation axis of the roller, a first end and a second end of the elongated metal member in the transverse direction being unified with the first resin member and the second resin member, respectively, wherein the elongated metal member has a part facing the inner surface of the endless belt.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2011Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto FUCHIGAMI, Kazutoshi MISONOO
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Patent number: 7505726Abstract: A fixing device includes a cylindrical fixing roller, an endless belt and a pressure member. The endless belt rotates along with the fixing roller. The endless belt is disposed at a position facing the fixing roller. The pressure member is disposed inside the endless belt. The pressure member pressurizes the fixing roller via the endless belt. The pressure member includes a contact member and an adjustment member. The contact member directly contacts with the endless belt. The adjustment member adjusts distribution of pressure given to the contact member.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2006Date of Patent: March 17, 2009Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eiichiro Tokuhiro, Kimihiro Wakabayashi, Kenji Kanai, Makoto Fuchigami
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Publication number: 20070048044Abstract: A fixing device includes a cylindrical fixing roller, an endless belt and a pressure member. The endless belt rotates along with the fixing roller. The endless belt is disposed at a position facing the fixing roller. The pressure member is disposed inside the endless belt. The pressure member pressurizes the fixing roller via the endless belt. The pressure member includes a contact member and an adjustment member. The contact member directly contacts with the endless belt. The adjustment member adjusts distribution of pressure given to the contact member.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2006Publication date: March 1, 2007Inventors: Eiichiro Tokuhiro, Kimihiro Wakabayashi, Kenji Kanai, Makoto Fuchigami