Patents by Inventor Satoshi Uchiyama

Satoshi Uchiyama 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).

  • Patent number: 5055872
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus having a lens unit and a mirror unit. The lens unit and the mirror unit are movably supported by a frame of the apparatus. A cam plate is provided at the lens unit, and a lever is in abutment with the cam plate. When the lens unit is moved in a direction, the cam plate is also moved, so that the lever is pivotally moved. The lever is abutted on the mirror unit. The pivotal motion of the lever, the mirror unit is also moved in another direction. The cam plate has a plurality of cam surfaces each defining respective copying magnifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1991
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuichi Sakaida, Katsuyoshi Sonobe, Nobuo Aoki, Satoshi Uchiyama, Makoto Yamada
  • Patent number: 5049926
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus for recording an image corresponding to an original on a photosensitive recording medium by irradiating light onto the original and converging light from the original onto the photosensitive recording medium. The apparatus includes a lens unit vertically movably supported by the frame, a plurality of position setting holes arrayed in a vertical direction of the frame, position setting means provided on the lens unit and capable of being inserted into one of the position setting holes for fixing the lens unit to the frame, urging means provided on the lens unit for urging the position setting means toward the frame to project the position setting means, actuating means provided on the lens unit for actuating the position setting means so that the position setting means retracts and moves away from the frame against urging force of the urging means when electric current is supplied to the actuating means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Michitoshi Akao, Katsuyoshi Sonobe, Kazuichi Sakaida, Nobuo Aoki, Satoshi Uchiyama, Hiroshi Igarashi