Patents by Inventor Takashi Kimura

Takashi Kimura 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: 10761472
    Abstract: According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a toner cartridge detachably mountable to a receiving device, the toner cartridge comprising a container including a accommodating portion for accommodating the toner and a discharge opening for discharging the toner from the accommodating portion into the receiving device; and an open/close member including a closing portion for closing the discharge opening and an engaging portion movable relative to the closing portion, the open/close member being rotatable relative to the container between (a) an opening position for causing the closing portion to open the discharge opening and (b) a closing position for causing the closing portion to close the discharge opening, wherein the engaging portion is movable relative to the closing portion between (c) a engaging position for engagement with the receiving device to receive a force for moving the open/close member from the opening position to the closing position when the toner cartridge is d
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yosuke Kashiide, Takashi Kimura
  • Patent number: 10747144
    Abstract: To develop a conventional structure of a toner cartridge. Toner cartridge includes a container and an open/close member. The container includes an accommodating portion, a discharge opening and a cartridge side guide. the open/close member includes a closing portion and an engaging portion and is movable between a closing position and an opening position. When the toner cartridge is dismounted from a receiving apparatus, the engaging portion receives a force for moving the open/close member from the opening position toward the closing position, the engaging with a receiving apparatus side guide of the receiving apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Kimura, Hisayoshi Kojima, Yosuke Kashiide
  • Publication number: 20200209803
    Abstract: An apparatus body of an image forming apparatus has a first guide portion having an inlet shape corresponding to an outer shape of an engagement portion provided in a cartridge when seen in an attachment direction of the cartridge to the apparatus body and guiding the engagement portion, a second guide portion for guiding a positioning target portion which is provided on the cartridge for positioning an attachment completion position of the cartridge with respect to the apparatus body, and a movable member being at a regulation position at which a guiding path of the positioning target portion by the second guide portion is blocked is immovable from the regulation position unless being pressed by the engagement portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Takashi Kimura, Isao Koishi, Daisuke Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20200209784
    Abstract: To develop a conventional structure of a toner cartridge. Toner cartridge includes a container and an open/close member. The container includes an accommodating portion, a discharge opening and a cartridge side guide. the open/close member includes a closing portion and an engaging portion and is movable between a closing position and an opening position. When the toner cartridge is dismounted from a receiving apparatus, the engaging portion receives a force for moving the open/close member from the opening position toward the closing position, the engaging with a receiving apparatus side guide of the receiving apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Takashi Kimura, Hisayoshi Kojima, Yosuke Kashiide
  • Publication number: 20200192244
    Abstract: To develop a conventional structure of a toner cartridge. The toner cartridge includes a container and an open/close member. The container includes an accommodating portion for accommodating toner, and a discharge opening. The open/close member includes a closing portion for closing the discharge opening, and a closing force receiving portion. The open/close member a movable relative to the container between a closing position for causing the closing portion to the close the discharge opening and an opening position for causing the closing portion to open the discharge opening. The open/close member including a leading end portion and a trailing end portion which are on downstream and upstream sides of the open/close member with respect to a closing direction in which the open/close member moves to close the discharge opening, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Takashi Kimura, Hisayoshi Kojima, Yosuke Kashiide
  • Publication number: 20200182768
    Abstract: A sensor board includes an insulating substrate, detection electrodes located on a surface of the insulating substrate and including a positive electrode and a negative electrode adjacent to each other, and connection terminals including a positive electrode terminal electrically connected to the positive electrode and a negative electrode terminal electrically connected to the negative electrode. The negative electrode has a smaller volume than the positive electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi KIMURA, Hidekazu OTOMARU
  • Publication number: 20200141893
    Abstract: A sensor board includes an insulating substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface, first detection electrodes located on the upper surface of the insulating substrate, second detection electrodes located on the lower surface of the insulating substrate, and a heat generator located between the first detection electrodes and the second detection electrodes inside the insulating substrate and including at least one conductor layer. A portion of the insulating substrate between the heat generator and the first detection electrodes has the same thickness as a portion of the insulating substrate between the heat generator and the second detection electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hidekazu OTOMARU, Takashi KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200134826
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus which generates a display image, includes: terminals; and at least one processor and/or at least one circuit to perform the operations of the following units: obtaining unit configured to obtain second images each having a second number of pixels from the terminals, wherein the second images form a first image having a first number of pixels, setting unit configured to set a region of the first image corresponding to the display image based on user input, and generating unit configured to generate the display image on the basis of one of the second images in a case where the number of pixels in the region is greater than a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Ken YANAGIBASHI, Hirofumi Urabe, Takashi Kimura
  • Patent number: 10613453
    Abstract: To develop a conventional structure of a toner cartridge. The toner cartridge includes a container and an open/close member. The container includes an accommodating portion for accommodating toner, and a discharge opening. The open/close member includes a closing portion for closing the discharge opening, and a closing force receiving portion. The open/close member a movable relative to the container between a closing position for causing the closing portion to the close the discharge opening and an opening position for causing the closing portion to open the discharge opening. The open/close member including a leading end portion and a trailing end portion which are on downstream and upstream sides of the open/close member with respect to a closing direction in which the open/close member moves to close the discharge opening, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Kimura, Hisayoshi Kojima, Yosuke Kashiide
  • Publication number: 20200064034
    Abstract: In an air conditioner, an inlet pipe penetrates a location that is offset towards an outer circumferential side from an apex portion of a top portion. The suction pipe penetrates a location that is offset towards the outer circumferential side from an apex portion of a bottom portion and is inserted into the interior of the main body portion, and the suction inner pipe, which constitutes a portion of the suction pipe that lies in the interior of the main body portion, extends as far as an upper portion of the main body portion so that an inlet port is disposed in a space defined by the top portion. Then, the suction inner pipe includes a bend portion that is bent from a location lying slightly above a location where the suction pipe penetrates the bottom portion as an originating point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi KIMURA, Kazuki SUDA
  • Publication number: 20200056730
    Abstract: A quick connector includes a tubular socket, a wire retainer attached to an outer circumferential surface of the socket, and a guide member provided inside of the socket. The wire retainer has a lock portion which engages with a flange of a first tubular body when the guide member is at a second position. An outer circumferential surface of the guide member is formed with a holding recess in which the lock portion is fitted when the guide member is at a first position, and a wall of a pair of walls forming the holding recess is formed with a tapered guide surface that extends radially outward. The tapered guide surface guides the wire retainer so that the wire retainer goes over the flange when the first tubular body is inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Takashi KIMURA
  • Patent number: 10564058
    Abstract: A dynamometer load device applies a load to a dynamometer unit that is connected to a hub of a wheel of a motor vehicle and being movable. The dynamometer load device applies, in conjunction with steering of the motor vehicle, a load to the dynamometer unit turning along with the hub. The load is applied in a direction opposite to a turning direction of the dynamometer unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: TOYO Corporartion
    Inventors: Takeo Kiuchi, Takashi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20190388007
    Abstract: An exhalation measurement device includes: a chamber to retain exhalation; a reference gas generator 17 to generate a reference gas; a measurement device 12 to measure concentrations of exhalation being retained in the chamber and a specific gas within the reference gas; a gas transporter 18 including a pump 11 to selectively transport the exhalation being retained in the chamber and the reference gas generated by the reference gas generator to the measurement device; and a control circuit 50 to control an operation of the gas transporter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Kenji OKI, Takanori KONISHI, Takashi KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20190383680
    Abstract: A dynamometer load device applies a load to a dynamometer unit that is connected to a hub of a wheel of a motor vehicle and being movable. The dynamometer load device applies, in conjunction with steering of the motor vehicle, a load to the dynamometer unit turning along with the hub. The load is applied in a direction opposite to a turning direction of the dynamometer unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Takeo KIUCHI, Takashi KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20190376727
    Abstract: If the refrigerant amount balance control is executed, since degrees of opening of indoor expansion valves are narrowed in indoor units whose refrigerant superheating degrees are smaller than an average refrigerant superheating degree, amounts of refrigerant flowing into the indoor expansion valves are decreased. On the other hand, in the indoor unit where the refrigerant superheating degree is higher than the average refrigerant superheating degree, since refrigerant pressure on a downstream side of the indoor expansion valve is also decreased due to the degrees of opening of the indoor expansion valves being narrowed, the difference in pressure between the upstream side and the downstream side of the indoor expansion valve increases and an amount of refrigerant flowing into the indoor unit is increased. Accordingly, cooling ability of the indoor unit increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Hideya TAMURA, Shinju WATANABE, Shinya ASANO, Takashi KIMURA, Kotaro TOYA, Yoshiki TANAKA, Yuki WATANABE
  • Patent number: 10495331
    Abstract: An air conditioner includes: an outdoor unit; a plurality of indoor units respectively including indoor heat exchangers; expansion valves respectively provided to the plurality of indoor units, the expansion valves being configured to adjust flow rates of a refrigerant in the indoor heat exchangers; and a controller for executing a refrigerant amount balance control for adjusting opening degrees of the expansion valves so that operation state amounts, with which the indoor heat exchangers exert heat exchange amounts, of the plurality of indoor units become equal to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Oka, Takahiro Matsunaga, Takashi Kimura, Shigeaki Suyama, Kotaro Toya
  • Patent number: 10443910
    Abstract: In an air conditioning apparatus, when the amounts of refrigerant oils retained in a first compressor and a second compressor are increased and oil levels in the first compressor and the second compressor reach a first oil outflow part and a second oil outflow part, the refrigerant oils subsequently sucked into the first compressor and the second compressor flow out of the first oil outflow part and the second oil outflow part to a first oil outflow pipe and a second oil outflow pipe, and flow from the first oil outflow pipe and the second oil outflow pipe to a refrigerant outflow pipe. The refrigerant oils flowing in the refrigerant outflow pipe from the first and second compressor through the first and second oil outflow pipe flow out of an outdoor unit through a four-way valve, and circulate through a refrigerant circuit together with refrigerants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi Kimura, Takahiro Matsunaga, Makoto Shimotani
  • Publication number: 20190286049
    Abstract: According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a toner cartridge detachably mountable to a receiving device, the toner cartridge comprising a container including a accommodating portion for accommodating the toner and a discharge opening for discharging the toner from the accommodating portion into the receiving device; and an open/close member including a closing portion for closing the discharge opening and an engaging portion movable relative to the closing portion, the open/close member being rotatable relative to the container between (a) an opening position for causing the closing portion to open the discharge opening and (b) a closing position for causing the closing portion to close the discharge opening, wherein the engaging portion is movable relative to the closing portion between (c) a engaging position for engagement with the receiving device to receive a force for moving the open/close member from the opening position to the closing position when the toner cartridge is d
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Yosuke Kashiide, Takashi Kimura
  • Patent number: D873335
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yosuke Kashiide, Takashi Kimura, Naoki Hayashi, Yu Fukasawa, Tachio Kawai
  • Patent number: D873336
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yosuke Kashiide, Takashi Kimura, Naoki Hayashi, Yu Fukasawa, Tachio Kawai