Patents by Inventor Ryusuke NAKATA
Ryusuke NAKATA 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: 11943404Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section that forms an image on a document; a first ejection section that ejects the document on which the image has been formed; an exterior portion which is movable and a part of which constitutes an exterior of the apparatus; an entrance portion that is exposed by movement of the exterior portion and that constitutes an entrance for the document to be transported to an image reading section that reads the image formed on the document; the image reading section that reads the image formed on the document transported after the entrance portion is exposed; and a second ejection section that ejects the document which has been read by the image reading section. An ejecting direction of the first ejection section, an ejecting direction of the second ejection section, and a moving direction of the exterior portion coincide with each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Isamu Adachi, Tomonori Sato, Ryusuke Nakata, Kazuyuki Koda, Miho Morita, Tomomi Ishida
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Patent number: 11729329Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a reader configured to read an image, and a movable member that is movable when the reader is not reading the image, and configured to move within a region where a fixed member fixed above the reader is not present on a movement trajectory of the movable member.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Kenichi Ishikura, Ryusuke Nakata, Kei Otagiri
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Patent number: 11659113Abstract: An image reading device includes a housing that includes a transport path along which a document is transported, an opening and closing member that is attached to the housing in such a manner as to be openable and closable, a reading unit that is disposed in such a manner as to be positioned between the transport path and the opening and closing member and that reads an image from the document, which is transported along the transport path, and an opposing member that is disposed in such a manner as to be opposed to the reading unit with the transport path interposed between the opposing member and the reading unit and that is moved away from the reading unit in conjunction with an opening operation of the opening and closing member.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Tomomi Ishida, Ryusuke Nakata, Tomonori Sato, Kazuyuki Koda, Isamu Adachi, Miho Morita
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Patent number: 11637942Abstract: A multifunction peripheral includes an exterior member that corresponds to an exterior portion of the multifunction peripheral and that differs from an input unit that inputs an instruction for a program, a reception unit that receives an instruction for performing a process that involves an operation of the exterior member, and a notification unit that notifies a user of a position on the exterior member to be operated by the user of the multifunction peripheral when the process is performed in a case where the reception unit receives the instruction for performance.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Kazuyuki Koda, Tomonori Sato, Ryusuke Nakata, Miho Morita, Tomomi Ishida, Isamu Adachi
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Publication number: 20230058066Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a medium discharge portion onto which a medium to be taken out by a person with the person standing is discharged, a placement portion that is installed above the medium discharge portion, an object in color that is represented by using a Y-value closer than a value that represents black color to a value that represents white color where the color is represented by using a Y-value that represents luminance in a YCbCr method being placed on the placement portion, an image capturing member that is installed above the placement portion and that captures an image of the object that is placed on the placement portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Naoyuki KATO, Kenichi ISHIKURA, Takahiro IIZUKA, Hiroyuki TANAKA, Shinya HASEGAWA, Kota TOMIOKA, Yoichi YAMAKAWA, Tomonori SATO, Ryusuke NAKATA, Kazuyuki KODA, Isamu ADACHI, Miho MORITA, Tomomi ISHIDA, Shinnosuke KONDO, Yuya SHIOKAWA, Daisuke ISHIHARA, Kohei TACHIBANA, Shinichi OHBA, Taisuke ENDO, Kenji YAMADA, Satoshi NODA
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Publication number: 20230055187Abstract: A container apparatus includes a first container unit that is movable from a first position at which a recording medium having a first size is to be supplied into an apparatus body to a second position at which a user is to supply the recording medium and that includes an upstream end portion and a downstream end portion in a direction in which the recording medium is to be supplied into the apparatus body with the first container unit positioned at the first position. The upstream end portion and the downstream end portion of the first container unit are located at different heights with the first container unit positioned at the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Shinya HASEGAWA, Naoyuki KATO, Kenji YAMADA, Satoshi NODA, Kenichi ISHIKURA, Takahiro IIZUKA, Hiroyuki TANAKA, Tomonori SATO, Ryusuke NAKATA, Kazuyuki KODA, Isamu ADACHI, Miho MORITA, Tomomi ISHIDA, Shinnosuke KONDO, Yuya SHIOKAWA, Daisuke ISHIHARA, Kohei TACHIBANA, Shinichi OHBA, Taisuke ENDO, Kota TOMIOKA, Yoichi YAMAKAWA
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Publication number: 20230060035Abstract: A multifunction peripheral includes an exterior member that corresponds to an exterior portion of the multifunction peripheral and that differs from an input unit that inputs an instruction for a program, a reception unit that receives an instruction for performing a process that involves an operation of the exterior member, and a notification unit that notifies a user of a position on the exterior member to be operated by the user of the multifunction peripheral when the process is performed in a case where the reception unit receives the instruction for performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2021Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Kazuyuki KODA, Tomonori SATO, Ryusuke NAKATA, Miho MORITA, Tomomi ISHIDA, Isamu ADACHI
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Publication number: 20230054658Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section that forms an image on a document; a first ejection section that ejects the document on which the image has been formed by the image forming section; an exterior portion which is movable and at least a part of which constitutes an exterior of the apparatus; an entrance portion that is exposed by movement of the exterior portion and that constitutes an entrance for the document to be transported to an image reading section that reads the image formed on the document; the image reading section that reads the image formed on the document transported after the entrance portion is exposed; and a second ejection section that ejects the document which has been read by the image reading section. An ejecting direction of the first ejection section, an ejecting direction of the second ejection section, and a moving direction of the exterior portion coincide with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Isamu ADACHI, Tomonori SATO, Ryusuke NAKATA, Kazuyuki KODA, Miho MORITA, Tomomi ISHIDA
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Publication number: 20230055462Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a reading member that reads an image of a document that is transported, a discharge portion onto which the document that is read by the reading member is discharged, a placement portion that is installed above the discharge portion, an object being placed on the placement portion such that at least a part of an upper surface of the reading member is covered, and an image capturing member that is installed above the placement portion and that captures an image of the object that is placed on the placement portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Tomonori SATO, Naoyuki KATO, Kenji YAMADA, Satoshi NODA, Kenichi ISHIKURA, Takahiro IIZUKA, HIROYUKI TANAKA, Shinya HASEGAWA, Kota TOMIOKA, Yoichi YAMAKAWA, Ryusuke NAKATA, Kazuyuki KODA, Isamu ADACHI, Miho MORITA, Tomomi ISHIDA, Shinnosuke KONDO, Yuya SHIOKAWA, Daisuke ISHIHARA, Kohei TACHIBANA, Shinichi OHBA, Taisuke ENDO
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Publication number: 20230055327Abstract: A sheet containing apparatus includes a first container unit that contains a sheet having a first size and that tilts with respect to a horizontal direction such that a first end and a second end in a width direction of the apparatus are located at different heights with the first container unit installed in a sheet containing apparatus body when viewed in a first direction, and a covering portion that is movable to a covering position at which the covering portion covers at least a part of the first container unit in the first direction and an open position at which the covering portion uncovers the first container unit in the first direction. When viewed in the first direction, a tilting division line is adjacent to the first container unit and tilts with respect to the horizontal direction, and at least a whole of the tilting division line is covered by the single covering portion in the first direction with the covering portion positioned at the covering position.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Kenichi ISHIKURA, Naoyuki KATO, Kenji YAMADA, Satoshi NODA, Shinya HASEGAWA, Kota TOMIOKA, HIROYUKI TANAKA, Yoichi YAMAKAWA, Tomonori SATO, Ryusuke NAKATA, Kazuyuki KODA, Isamu ADACHI, Miho MORITA, Tomomi ISHIDA, Shinnosuke KONDO, Yuya SHIOKAWA, Daisuke ISHIHARA, Kohei TACHIBANA, Takahiro IIZUKA, Shinichi OHBA, Taisuke ENDO
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Publication number: 20230059440Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a reader configured to read an image, and a movable member that is movable when the reader is not reading the image, and configured to move within a region where a fixed member fixed above the reader is not present on a movement trajectory of the movable member.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2021Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Kenichi ISHIKURA, Ryusuke NAKATA, Kei OTAGIRI
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Publication number: 20230054566Abstract: A driving device includes: a frame disposed in the driving device to support a driven unit driven by the driving device, the frame including a first portion, a distance from which to an outer wall of an accommodation device that accommodates the driving device is shorter, and a second portion, a distance from which to the outer wall is longer than the distance from the first portion to the outer wall; and a driving unit disposed between the second portion and the outer wall, at least a part of the driving unit being away from the outer wall by the distance between the first portion and the outer wall or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Shinnosuke KONDO, Naoyuki KATO, Kenji YAMADA, Satoshi NODA, Kenichi ISHIKURA, Takahiro IIZUKA, Hiroyuki TANAKA, Shinya HASEGAWA, Kota TOMIOKA, Yoichi YAMAKAWA, Tomonori SATO, Ryusuke NAKATA, Kazuyuki KODA, Isamu ADACHI, Miho MORITA, Tomomi ISHIDA, Shinichi OHBA, Taisuke ENDO, Yuya SHIOKAWA, Daisuke ISHIHARA, Kohei TACHIBANA
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Publication number: 20230057067Abstract: An image reading device includes a housing that includes a transport path along which a document is transported, an opening and closing member that is attached to the housing in such a manner as to be openable and closable, a reading unit that is disposed in such a manner as to be positioned between the transport path and the opening and closing member and that reads an image from the document, which is transported along the transport path, and an opposing member that is disposed in such a manner as to be opposed to the reading unit with the transport path interposed between the opposing member and the reading unit and that is moved away from the reading unit in conjunction with an opening operation of the opening and closing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Tomomi ISHIDA, Ryusuke NAKATA, Tomonori SATO, Kazuyuki KODA, Isamu ADACHI, Miho MORITA
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Publication number: 20230058921Abstract: A document reading device includes an imaging unit that images a document, a placing portion that includes a first placing portion and a second placing portion and that has a placing surface on which the document is placed, the placing surface being formed by the first placing portion and the second placing portion, and a detector that detects an edge of the document that is placed on the placing surface by using a color difference or a luminance difference between the placing surface and the document. An end portion of the first placing portion adjacent to the second placing portion extends toward the second placing portion beyond an end portion of the second placing portion adjacent to the first placing portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Miho MORITA, Naoyuki KATO, Kenji YAMADA, Satoshi NODA, Kenichi ISHIKURA, Takahiro IIZUKA, HIROYUKI TANAKA, Shinya HASEGAWA, Kota TOMIOKA, Yoichi YAMAKAWA, Tomonori SATO, Ryusuke NAKATA, Kazuyuki KODA, Isamu ADACHI, Tomomi ISHIDA, Shinnosuke KONDO, Yuya SHIOKAWA, Daisuke ISHIHARA, Kohei TACHIBANA, Shinichi OHBA, Taisuke ENDO
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Publication number: 20230057320Abstract: A document reading device includes: an image capturing member that captures an image of a document; a placement portion that is disposed below the image capturing member and that has a boundary line between multiple surfaces at a position at which the boundary line is covered by the document when the document has a maximum size that the image capturing member is capable of imaging and the document is placed on the placement portion; and a document reading member that reads the document that is placed on the placement portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Ryusuke NAKATA, Naoyuki KATO, Kenji YAMADA, Satoshi NODA, Kenichi ISHIKURA, Takahiro IIZUKA, Hiroyuki TANAKA, Shinya HASEGAWA, Kota TOMIOKA, Yoichi YAMAKAWA, Tomonori SATO, Kazuyuki KODA, Isamu ADACHI, Miho MORITA, Tomomi ISHIDA, Shinnosuke KONDO, Yuya SHIOKAWA, Daisuke ISHIHARA, Kohei TACHIBANA, Shinichi OHBA, Taisuke ENDO
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Publication number: 20230053700Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body having an image forming part that forms an image on a recording medium and a medium storage part in which a recording medium to be supplied to the image forming part is stored; and a front opening/closing covering that is an openable and closable covering that covers at least a part of the image forming part and a part of the medium storage part on a front face of the apparatus body, wherein the front opening/closing covering is constituted by a single opening/closing covering that covers at least a range from one end to the other end in a left-right direction of the part of the medium storage part in a left-right direction of the apparatus body.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Takahiro IIZUKA, Naoyuki KATO, Kenji YAMADA, Satoshi NODA, Kenichi ISHIKURA, HIROYUKI TANAKA, Shinya HASEGAWA, Kota TOMIOKA, Yoichi YAMAKAWA, Tomonori SATO, Ryusuke NAKATA, Kazuyuki KODA, Isamu ADACHI, Miho MORITA, Tomomi ISHIDA, Shinnosuke KONDO, Yuya SHIOKAWA, Daisuke ISHIHARA, Kohei TACHIBANA, Shinichi OHBA, Taisuke ENDO
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Patent number: 11429051Abstract: A sheet transportation device includes a sheet loading table, a feeding unit that feeds a sheet placed on the sheet loading table, a first detection unit that is provided downstream of the feeding unit in a sheet transportation direction and that detects a position of a leading end of the sheet, a second detection unit that is provided upstream of the feeding unit in the sheet transportation direction and that detects a position of a leading end of a small-size sheet which is smaller than the sheet detected by the first detection unit, and a control unit that starts feeding the sheet based on a result of detection performed by any of the first detection unit or the second detection unit in accordance with a size of the sheet.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventor: Ryusuke Nakata
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Publication number: 20200310320Abstract: A sheet transportation device includes a sheet loading table, a feeding unit that feeds a sheet placed on the sheet loading table, a first detection unit that is provided downstream of the feeding unit in a sheet transportation direction and that detects a position of a leading end of the sheet, a second detection unit that is provided upstream of the feeding unit in the sheet transportation direction and that detects a position of a leading end of a small-size sheet which is smaller than the sheet detected by the first detection unit, and a control unit that starts feeding the sheet based on a result of detection performed by any of the first detection unit or the second detection unit in accordance with a size of the sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventor: Ryusuke NAKATA
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Patent number: 10647534Abstract: A sheet transport device includes a sheet transport path along which at least one sheet is transported to a nip defined by a fixing roller and a displacement roller, a sensing unit disposed on the sheet transport path, an opening and closing member that is movable between a closed position at which the sheet transport path is formed and an open position at which the sheet transport path is exposed, and a guide member that is attached to the opening and closing member and that moves by following displacement of the displacement roller in such a manner as to maintain a certain distance from the sensing unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventor: Ryusuke Nakata
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Publication number: 20190300312Abstract: A sheet transport device includes a sheet transport path along which at least one sheet is transported to a nip defined by a fixing roller and a displacement roller, a sensing unit disposed on the sheet transport path, an opening and closing member that is movable between a closed position at which the sheet transport path is formed and an open position at which the sheet transport path is exposed, and a guide member that is attached to the opening and closing member and that moves by following displacement of the displacement roller in such a manner as to maintain a certain distance from the sensing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2018Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventor: Ryusuke NAKATA