Patents by Inventor Tomoko Miyahara

Tomoko Miyahara 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).

  • Publication number: 20170242375
    Abstract: Provided is a transparent roll around which a transparent belt that transmits light from a light source is wound and which presses the transparent belt in a nip portion and transmits the light from the light source, the transparent roll including a base layer, and an elastic layer that is exposed on a transparent belt side with respect to the base layer and is elastically deformed greater than the base layer in the nip portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoko MIYAHARA, Takashi MATSUBARA, Tetsuro KODERA
  • Patent number: 9684269
    Abstract: Provided is a transparent belt which is wound around a transparent roll and pressed at a nip portion and through which light from a light source transmits, the transparent belt including a base material layer, and an elastic layer that is exposed on a transparent roll side with respect to the base material layer and is elastically deformed greater than the base material layer in the nip portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Matsubara, Tetsuro Kodera, Tomoko Miyahara
  • Publication number: 20160195840
    Abstract: Provided is a lens including a curved surface including a top portion at one end of the lens, wherein a groove is formed on the curved surface, and wherein light incident to the curved surface is concentrated on the other end of the lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Tomoko MIYAHARA, Takashi MATSUBARA, Tetsuro KODERA
  • Patent number: 9383697
    Abstract: Provided is a lens including a curved surface including a top portion at one end of the lens, wherein a groove is formed on the curved surface, and wherein light incident to the curved surface is concentrated on the other end of the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoko Miyahara, Takashi Matsubara, Tetsuro Kodera
  • Patent number: 9342004
    Abstract: Provided is a heating device, including a transparent belt that travels along a determined path, a first transparent member that comes into contact with an outer circumferential surface of the belt to form a nip at a first position in the belt, and an irradiating section that irradiates a beam which reaches a second position which comes into contact with a heating-target member and differs from the first position in a circumferential direction of the belt via the transparent member and the nip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Kodera, Takashi Matsubara, Tomoko Miyahara
  • Patent number: 9335687
    Abstract: Provided is a fixing device that includes a transparent endless belt, a lens, a nip forming member, and a light source. The transparent endless belt includes an inner peripheral surface to which a lubricating liquid adheres, and an outer peripheral surface. A plurality of grooves are formed on one of the inner peripheral surface and the outer peripheral surface, and the light source irradiates an irradiation target with light through the inner peripheral surface or the outer peripheral surface of the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoko Miyahara, Takashi Matsubara, Tetsuro Kodera
  • Patent number: 9290602
    Abstract: A surface protective film includes a structure in which a fluorine resin having a perfluoroalkylene ether structure in a main chain is crosslinking polymerized, wherein a storage elastic modulus E? is in the range of 10 MPa to 1000 MPa at a temperature which is 40 K higher than a dynamic glass transition temperature Tg in dynamic viscoelasticity measurement at a measurement frequency of 10 Hz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Saegusa, Tomoko Miyahara, Kaoru Torikoshi
  • Publication number: 20150274870
    Abstract: Provided is a perfluoroalkylene ether-containing compound represented by the following general formula (1): wherein R1 and R2 each independently indicates a fluorine atom or a trifluoromethyl group, provided that both R1 and R2 are not the fluorine atom, n1 indicates an integer from 1 to 5, n2 indicates an integer from 0 to 2, the total number of n1 and n2 is less than or equal to 5, m indicates an integer greater than or equal to 1, A1 and A2 each independently indicates a bivalent group represented by the following general formula (2), B1 and B2 each independently indicates a bivalent group selected from the group consisting of a single bond and the following (B-1) to (B-3), X1 and X2 each independently indicates a monovalent group having at least one reactive crosslinking group selected from the group consisting of the following (X-1) to (X-8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi SAEGUSA, Tatsuki SANO, Tomoko MIYAHARA, Kaoru TORIKOSHI
  • Patent number: 8937144
    Abstract: There is provided an elastic member including a surface resin layer including a crosslinked product of a dimethyl silicone compound having a reactive group and a fluoroalkyl compound having a reactive group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Saegusa, Tomoko Miyahara, Hisae Yoshizawa, Kaoru Torikoshi
  • Patent number: 8900782
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a substrate; an undercoat layer provided on the substrate and containing a tin-zinc complex oxide powder having a volume resistivity of about 2×109 ?·cm or less; and a photosensitive layer provided on the undercoat layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Anazawa, Tomoko Miyahara, Kaoru Torikoshi
  • Publication number: 20140295139
    Abstract: A surface protection film contains a urethane resin formed by polymerizing an acrylic resin having a hydroxyl group at a side chain and an isocyanate, and has a Martens' hardness of 50 N/mm2 or less and a surface roughness Ra measured based on JIS-B0601 of from 0.05 ?m to 1.0 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoko MIYAHARA, Hiroshi SAEGUSA, Kaoru TORIKOSHI
  • Publication number: 20140296363
    Abstract: A surface protective film includes a structure in which a fluorine resin having a perfluoroalkylene ether structure in a main chain is crosslinking polymerized, wherein a storage elastic modulus E? is in the range of 10 MPa to 1000 MPa at a temperature which is 40 K higher than a dynamic glass transition temperature Tg in dynamic viscoelasticity measurement at a measurement frequency of 10 Hz.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi SAEGUSA, Tomoko MIYAHARA, Kaoru TORIKOSHI
  • Patent number: 8824946
    Abstract: A urethane resin laminate includes a substrate material having a contact angle of water in the surface of the substrate material being from 0 degree to 90 degrees, an inner urethane resin layer, and an outer urethane resin layer in this order. The inner urethane resin layer contains urethane resin that does not have a fluorine atom in a molecular structure, and has self-repairability. The outer urethane resin layer contains urethane resin containing a fluorine atom in a molecular structure, and has self-repairability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisae Yoshizawa, Tomoko Miyahara, Hiroshi Saegusa, Kazunori Anazawa, Kaoru Torikoshi
  • Patent number: 8785564
    Abstract: A resin material contains a polymer of a composition containing an isocyanate and an acrylic resin having OH-group-containing side chains in which a proportion of OH-group-containing side chains each having 6 or more carbon atoms relative to all of the OH-group-containing side chains is about 76 mol % or more and about 100 mol % or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Saegusa, Hisae Yoshizawa, Tomoko Miyahara, Kazunori Anazawa, Kaoru Torikoshi
  • Patent number: 8760728
    Abstract: Provided is a transparent plate for a platen which is used in a document scanning apparatus, including a transparent supporting member, and a transparent protective layer that has a self-repairability and has a surface coefficient of kinetic friction with respect to copy paper of 0.7 or less on the transparent supporting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoko Miyahara, Hisae Yoshizawa, Hiroshi Saegusa, Kazunori Anazawa, Kaoru Torikoshi
  • Publication number: 20140051811
    Abstract: A resin material contains a polymer of a composition containing an isocyanate and an acrylic resin having OH-group-containing side chains in which a proportion of OH-group-containing side chains each having 6 or more carbon atoms relative to all of the OH-group-containing side chains is about 76 mol % or more and about 100 mol % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi SAEGUSA, Hisae YOSHIZAWA, Tomoko MIYAHARA, Kazunori ANAZAWA, Kaoru TORIKOSHI
  • Publication number: 20130245195
    Abstract: There is provided an elastic member including a surface resin layer including a crosslinked product of a dimethyl silicone compound having a reactive group and a fluoroalkyl compound having a reactive group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi SAEGUSA, Tomoko MIYAHARA, Hisae YOSHIZAWA, Kaoru TORIKOSHI
  • Publication number: 20130077135
    Abstract: Provided is a transparent plate for a platen which is used in a document scanning apparatus, including a transparent supporting member, and a transparent protective layer that has a self-repairability and has a surface coefficient of kinetic friction with respect to copy paper of 0.7 or less on the transparent supporting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoko MIYAHARA, Hisae YOSHIZAWA, Hiroshi SAEGUSA, Kazunori ANAZAWA, Kaoru TORIKOSHI
  • Publication number: 20130051880
    Abstract: A urethane resin laminate includes a substrate material having a contact angle of water in the surface of the substrate material being from 0 degree to 90 degrees, an inner urethane resin layer, and an outer urethane resin layer in this order. The inner urethane resin layer contains urethane resin that does not have a fluorine atom in a molecular structure, and has self-repairability. The outer urethane resin layer contains urethane resin containing a fluorine atom in a molecular structure, and has self-repairability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisae YOSHIZAWA, Tomoko MIYAHARA, Hiroshi SAEGUSA, Kazunori ANAZAWA, Kaoru TORIKOSHI
  • Publication number: 20130040233
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a substrate; an undercoat layer provided on the substrate and containing a tin-zinc complex oxide powder having a volume resistivity of about 2×109 ?·cm or less; and a photosensitive layer provided on the undercoat layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunori ANAZAWA, Tomoko MIYAHARA, Kaoru TORIKOSHI