Patents by Inventor Nobuyuki Taguchi
Nobuyuki Taguchi 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: 20150022277Abstract: In a gyro sensor, a TDC detects a magnitude of vibration of a vibrator. A drive circuit (excluding the TDC) determines a duty ratio of a PWM drive signal in accordance with the magnitude of vibration so that the magnitude of vibration becomes a predetermined magnitude and outputs the PWM drive signal having the determined duty ratio. The drive circuit (excluding the TDC) includes a control circuit and a DCO. The control circuit measures time corresponding to the control value by using a gate delay time, generates the PWM drive signal having a pulse width corresponding to the control value and outputs the PWM drive signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shigenori YAMAUCHI, Takamoto WATANABE, Nobuyuki TAGUCHI
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Patent number: 8855507Abstract: In the present invention, a lubricant supplying device includes a lubricant end determining unit that determines that a solid lubricant is in an end state when the amount of a lubricant supplying operation reaches a threshold after a residual amount detecting unit detects that the residual amount of the solid lubricant is equal to or smaller than a predetermined amount. The lubricant end determining unit makes a threshold of the amount of the lubricant supplying operation at temperature or humidity of equal to or lower than a predetermined value lower than a threshold of the amount of the lubricant supplying operation at temperature or humidity of higher than the predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2013Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventors: Hideyasu Seki, Satoshi Hatori, Naohiro Kumagai, Kaoru Yoshino, Akira Fujimori, Ryohta Gotoh, Nobuyuki Taguchi, Hiromichi Ninomiya, Yuta Azeyanagi, Yasuhito Kuboshima
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Publication number: 20140270881Abstract: A lubricant supply device includes a solid lubricant, a lubricant holder to hold the solid lubricant, a lubricant supply member to supply lubricant to a lubrication target, a pressing member to press the solid lubricant toward the lubricant supply member, and a pressing force adjuster to change an amount of pressing force exerted by the pressing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Ryohta GOTOH, Kaoru YOSHINO, Satoshi HATORI, Hiromichi NINOMIYA, Nobuyuki TAGUCHI, Yasuhito KUBOSHIMA, Naohiro KUMAGAI, Shinichi KAWAHARA, Nobuo KUWABARA, Hideyasu SEKI, Yuta AZEYANAGI
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Patent number: 8824932Abstract: A development device includes a developer container, a developer carrier, exposed partly from a casing, facing a latent image carrier in a development area, a magnetic field generator inside the developer carrier, having multiple magnetic poles including a conveyance pole to convey the developer downstream from the development area to a developer release portion, a developer agitator, and a developer regulator. A predetermined gap is kept between an outer surface of the developer carrier and an inner wall of the casing downstream from an opening of the casing, upstream from a developer release portion, in a direction in which the developer carrier rotates. Multiple recesses are formed in the outer surface of the developer carrier at a pitch in a circumferential direction shorter than half a width of a magnetic flux density of the developer conveyance pole in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the developer carrier.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Katsumi Masuda, Takamasa Ozeki, Nobuyuki Taguchi, Yuuki Satoh, Toshiki Hayashi, Kyohta Koetsuka, Toshio Kojima, Masayuki Ohsawa, Noriyuki Kamiya, Takumi Terasaka
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Publication number: 20140199091Abstract: A detachable device, which can be included in an image forming apparatus, includes a unit drive mechanism, and a cover disposed at one end and an opposite end in the given attachment/detachment direction to cover the unit drive mechanism thereof. The cover includes a first cover and a second cover. The first cover includes at least one first inlet port to intake air from the apparatus body and guide the air to the detachable unit. The second cover includes a second inlet port to intake the air guided into the detachable unit and an air outlet port to exhaust the air introduced from the second inlet port to the apparatus body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2014Publication date: July 17, 2014Inventors: Yuta AZEYANAGI, Hiromichi Ninomiya, Satoshi Hatori, Naohiro Kumagai, Nobuyuki Taguchi, Kaoru Yoshino, Yasuhito Kuboshima, Hideyasu Seki, Ryohta Gotoh
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Publication number: 20140147170Abstract: An image carrier includes a tubular image carrier body to carry an image on an outer circumferential surface thereof, a shaft disposed inside the image carrier body, a first flange mounted on the shaft, and a second flange spaced apart from the first flange in an axial direction of the image carrier and mounted on the shaft. Each of the first flange and the second flange includes a through-hole contacting the shaft, a first engagement portion to engage a lateral end of the image carrier body in the axial direction of the image carrier, and a second engagement portion, constituting at least a part of the through-hole, to engage the shaft. The second engagement portion is disposed inboard from the first engagement portion in the axial direction of the image carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2013Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki TAGUCHI, Satoshi HATORI, Naohiro KUMAGAI, Kaoru YOSHINO, Hiromichi NINOMIYA, Yuta AZEYANAGI, Yasuhito KUBOSHIMA, Hideyasu SEKI, Ryohta GOTOH
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Patent number: 8682230Abstract: A development device including a developer container, a developer bearer, a magnetic field generator, a developer agitator to supply the developer to the developer bearer, and a developer regulator to adjust a layer thickness of the developer carried on the developer bearer. Multiple oval recesses oblique to the axial direction of the developer bearer are formed in the outer circumferential surface of the developer bearer and arranged in a circumferential direction and the axial direction thereof. An upstream inner wall of the recess in the rotational direction of the developer bearer applies a force to the developer as the developer bearer rotates, and an angle between a long axis of the recess and the axial direction is set so that the force applied by the upstream inner wall of the recess has a component in a direction substantially identical to the developer conveyance direction of the developer agitator.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2011Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Nobuyuki Taguchi, Katsumi Masuda, Takamasa Ozeki, Yuuki Satoh, Toshiki Hayashi, Kyohta Koetsuka, Toshio Kojima, Masayuki Ohsawa, Noriyuki Kamiya, Takumi Terasaka
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Publication number: 20140050509Abstract: A toner container and an image forming apparatus are disclosed. The toner container includes a guiding member formed at a part surrounding a toner outlet to be protruded from a circumferential surface of the toner container for guiding an opening or closing operation of a shutter member in a circumferential direction of the toner container. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming apparatus main body. The image forming apparatus main body includes a main body side shutter for opening or closing a toner supplying opening to be connected to the toner outlet. When the shutter member is opened, an end surface of the guiding member pushes the main body side shutter together with the opening operation of the shutter member, and the toner supplying opening is opened and is connected to the toner outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2013Publication date: February 20, 2014Inventors: Ichiro KADOTA, KUNIHIRO OHYAMA, MASAYUKI YAMANE, TAKESHI UCHITANI, NOBUYUKI TAGUCHI, SATORU YOSHIDA, TAKUYA SESHITA
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Patent number: 8600262Abstract: A toner container and an image forming apparatus are disclosed. The toner container includes a guiding member formed at a part surrounding a toner outlet to be protruded from a circumferential surface of the toner container for guiding an opening or closing operation of a shutter member in a circumferential direction of the toner container. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming apparatus main body. The image forming apparatus main body includes a main body side shutter for opening or closing a toner supplying opening to be connected to the toner outlet. When the shutter member is opened, an end surface of the guiding member pushes the main body side shutter together with the opening operation of the shutter member, and the toner supplying opening is opened and is connected to the toner outlet.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2012Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Ichiro Kadota, Kunihiro Ohyama, Masayuki Yamane, Takeshi Uchitani, Nobuyuki Taguchi, Satoru Yoshida, Takuya Seshita
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Publication number: 20130251381Abstract: In the present invention, a lubricant supplying device includes a lubricant end determining unit that determines that a solid lubricant is in an end state when the amount of a lubricant supplying operation reaches a threshold after a residual amount detecting unit detects that the residual amount of the solid lubricant is equal to or smaller than a predetermined amount. The lubricant end determining unit makes a threshold of the amount of the lubricant supplying operation at temperature or humidity of equal to or lower than a predetermined value lower than a threshold of the amount of the lubricant supplying operation at temperature or humidity of higher than the predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Inventors: Hideyasu Seki, Satoshi Hatori, Naohiro Kumagai, Kaoru Yoshino, Akira Fujimori, Ryohta Gotoh, Nobuyuki Taguchi, Hiromichi Ninomiya, Yuta Azeyanagi, Yasuhito Kuboshima
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Publication number: 20130251380Abstract: In an embodiment, provided is a lubricant supplying device that includes: a solid lubricant; a supplying member that supplies lubricant of the solid lubricant to a lubricant supplying target; and a remaining amount detecting unit that detects an amount of the solid lubricant being at a given amount or less. The remaining amount detecting unit is provided on a downstream side in a rubbing direction of the supplying member with respect to the solid lubricant.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Inventors: Akira FUJIMORI, Satoshi Hatori, Naohiro Kumagai, Kaoru Yoshino, Hideyasu Seki, Ryohta Gotoh, Takeshi Shintani, Nobuyuki Taguchi, Hiromichi Ninomiya, Norio Kudo, Kenji Honjoh, Yuta Azeyanagi
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Publication number: 20130243449Abstract: A lubricant supplying device includes: lubricant; a supplying member that supplies the lubricant to a lubricant supply target; and a remaining amount detecting unit that detects that a remaining amount of the lubricant is equal to or smaller than a certain amount. The remaining amount detecting unit includes a first electrode member and a second electrode member. The lubricant supplying device further comprises a member that causes at least a part of the second electrode member to move and causes the second electrode member to abut the first electrode member with an increase in consumption of the lubricant.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Inventors: Satoshi Hatori, Ryohta Gotoh, Akira Fujimori, Naohiro Kumagai, Kaoru Yoshino, Hideyasu Seki, Nobuyuki Taguchi, Hiromichi Ninomiya, Yuta Azeyanagi, Yasuhito Kuboshima
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Publication number: 20130129391Abstract: A toner container and an image forming apparatus are disclosed. The toner container includes a guiding member formed at a part surrounding a toner outlet to be protruded from a circumferential surface of the toner container for guiding an opening or closing operation of a shutter member in a circumferential direction of the toner container. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming apparatus main body. The image forming apparatus main body includes a main body side shutter for opening or closing a toner supplying opening to be connected to the toner outlet. When the shutter member is opened, an end surface of the guiding member pushes the main body side shutter together with the opening operation of the shutter member, and the toner supplying opening is opened and is connected to the toner outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2012Publication date: May 23, 2013Inventors: Ichiro Kadota, Kunihiro Ohyama, Masayuki Yamane, Takeshi Uchitani, Nobuyuki Taguchi, Satoru Yoshida, Takuya Seshita
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Patent number: 8396398Abstract: The toner bottle exchangeably used in an image forming apparatus. The toner bottle includes a bottle body having a substantially cylindrical shape and configured to contain toner, a gear configured to rotate a part of the toner bottle, a cap attached to the bottle body and including an opening arranged in a circumferential surface of the cap and configured to output toner to a development apparatus of the image forming apparatus, a toner conveyance mechanism arranged in the bottle body and configured to convey the toner to the opening.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2012Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Nobuyuki Taguchi, Misaki Uchiyama, Masahiro Kurita, Goro Katsuyama
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Patent number: 8369738Abstract: A toner container and an image forming apparatus are disclosed. The toner container includes a guiding member formed at a part surrounding a toner outlet to be protruded from a circumferential surface of the toner container for guiding an opening or closing operation of a shutter member in a circumferential direction of the toner container. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming apparatus main body. The image forming apparatus main body includes a main body side shutter for opening or closing a toner supplying opening to be connected to the toner outlet. When the shutter member is opened, an end surface of the guiding member pushes the main body side shutter together with the opening operation of the shutter member, and the toner supplying opening is opened and is connected to the toner outlet.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2009Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Ichiro Kadota, Kunihiro Ohyama, Masayuki Yamane, Takeshi Uchitani, Nobuyuki Taguchi, Satoru Yoshida, Takuya Seshita
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Patent number: 8326189Abstract: There is provided a separation member for separating a first conveying path formed by a first conveying member from a second conveying path formed by a second conveying member. There is also provided an opposed member facing a magnetic pole H4 at an upstream side of two magnetic poles H4 and H6 that forms a developer-releasing magnetic pole H5.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2010Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventors: Yoshiyuki Fukuda, Katsumi Masuda, Nobuyuki Taguchi, Yuuki Satoh, Yasufumi Takahashi, Keiichi Yoshida, Yoshio Hattori, Akira Azami, Takamasa Ozeki, Toshiki Hayashi
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Publication number: 20120141171Abstract: The toner bottle exchangeably used in an image forming apparatus. The toner bottle includes a bottle body having a substantially cylindrical shape and configured to contain toner, a gear configured to rotate a part of the toner bottle, a cap attached to the bottle body and including an opening arranged in a circumferential surface of the cap and configured to output toner to a development apparatus of the image forming apparatus, a toner conveyance mechanism arranged in the bottle body and configured to convey the toner to the opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2012Publication date: June 7, 2012Inventors: Nobuyuki Taguchi, Misaki Uchiyama, Masahiro Kurita, Goro Katsuyama
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Patent number: 8160461Abstract: A toner container detachably attached to a toner-container holder of a main body of an image forming apparatus includes a container body that includes an opening, and discharges toner contained in the container body, from the opening; and a held portion that is held by the toner-container holder in a non-rotating manner. The held portion includes an open/close member for opening/closing the toner outlet in synchronization with an attachment/detachment operation of the held portion to/from the toner-container holder.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2010Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Ricoh Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuyuki Taguchi, Goro Katsuyama, Takeroh Kurenuma, Hideo Yoshizawa, Masayuki Yamane
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Patent number: 8135315Abstract: A developing unit includable in a process cartridge and in an image forming apparatus includes a developer bearing member including a magnetic field generator and a nonmagnetic hollow member, a developer container, an agitation/conveyance member, a developer regulating member to regulate the thickness of a layer of the two-component developer. The magnetic field generator has first and second magnetic poles to generate respective magnetic forces for removing the developer from the developer bearing member after the developer passes the development region. The second magnetic pole generates a magnetic force to attract the developer to form a magnetic brush on the developer bearing member. The developer regulating member includes a magnetic member outwardly disposed on an exterior perimeter surface of the developer bearing member upstream from the developer regulating member, and one planar surface of the magnetic member faces the second magnetic pole across an effective development region.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2009Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Takamasa Ozeki, Katsumi Masuda, Yoshio Hattori, Hiroyuki Uenishi, Yuji Suzuki, Kyohta Koetsuka, Masayuki Ohsawa, Yoshiyuki Takano, Takeroh Kurenuma, Akira Azami, Nobuyuki Taguchi
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Publication number: 20120057907Abstract: A development device including a developer container, a developer bearer, a magnetic field generator, a developer agitator to supply the developer to the developer bearer, and a developer regulator to adjust a layer thickness of the developer carried on the developer bearer. Multiple oval recesses oblique to the axial direction of the developer bearer are formed in the outer circumferential surface of the developer bearer and arranged in a circumferential direction and the axial direction thereof. An upstream inner wall of the recess in the rotational direction of the developer bearer applies a force to the developer as the developer bearer rotates, and an angle between a long axis of the recess and the axial direction is set so that the force applied by the upstream inner wall of the recess has a component in a direction substantially identical to the developer conveyance direction of the developer agitator.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2011Publication date: March 8, 2012Inventors: Nobuyuki TAGUCHI, Katsumi Masuda, Takamasa Ozeki, Yuuki Satoh, Toshiki Hayashi, Kyohta Koetsuka, Toshio Kojima, Masayuki Ohsawa, Noriyuki Kamiya, Takumi Terasaka