Patents by Inventor Toshio Kaji

Toshio Kaji 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: 11872759
    Abstract: An irradiation device of a lamination molding apparatus includes: at least one laser source, generating a laser beam; a first galvano scanner, scanning the laser beam; a second galvano scanner, scanning the laser beam; and an irradiation controller, controlling the laser source, the first galvano scanner, and the second galvano scanner. Irradiable ranges of the laser beams by using the first galvano scanner and the second galvano scanner respectively include an entire of a molding region. A first X-axis galvano mirror and a first Y-axis galvano mirror of the first galvano scanner and a second X-axis galvano mirror and a second Y-axis galvano mirror of the second galvano scanner are disposed to be plane-symmetric to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kawamura, Kensuke Kashimura, Toshio Kaji, Yoshifumi Ichikawa, Yasuyuki Miyashita
  • Patent number: 11806786
    Abstract: A stress controlled layer is constituted to include a compressive stress applied part that is a region to which a compressive stress is applied and a compressive stress non-applied part that is a region different from the compressive stress applied part. In a solidifying step, scanning of a laser beam or an electron beam is performed while a scanning direction for the compressive stress applied part is different from a scanning direction for the compressive stress non-applied part such that the compressive stress applied part expands further than the compressive stress non-applied part or the compressive stress non-applied part shrinks compared with the compressive stress applied part based on a relationship between the scanning direction and an expansion quantity or a shrinkage quantity at a time of temperature change or at a time of heat treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Araie, Toshio Kaji, Tatsuro Hayakawa, Hiroshi Amioka, Atsushi Hirota
  • Patent number: 11794252
    Abstract: A lamination molding method, which repeats a material layer forming step of forming a material layer and a solidifying step of irradiating an irradiation region of the material layer with laser beams scanned by n scanners to form a solidified layer, includes: a first dividing step and an irradiation order deciding step. In the first dividing step, the irradiation region is divided to 2n-1 or more divided regions by a plurality of first dividing lines in a manner that irradiation time of each of the divided regions to which the laser beams are simultaneously irradiated becomes equal. In the irradiation order deciding step, an irradiation order of the divided regions in the solidifying step is decided in a manner that the laser beams are simultaneously irradiated to the divided regions that are not adjacent, and the laser beams are not simultaneously irradiated to the divided regions that are adjacent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Araie, Toshio Kaji, Yasuyuki Miyashita, Katsuhiko Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220395908
    Abstract: A stress controlled layer is constituted to include a compressive stress applied part that is a region to which a compressive stress is applied and a compressive stress non-applied part that is a region different from the compressive stress applied part. In a solidifying step, scanning of a laser beam or an electron beam is performed while a scanning direction for the compressive stress applied part is different from a scanning direction for the compressive stress non-applied part such that the compressive stress applied part expands further than the compressive stress non-applied part or the compressive stress non-applied part shrinks compared with the compressive stress applied part based on a relationship between the scanning direction and an expansion quantity or a shrinkage quantity at a time of temperature change or at a time of heat treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro ARAIE, Toshio KAJI, Tatsuro HAYAKAWA, Hiroshi AMIOKA, Atsushi HIROTA
  • Patent number: 11370029
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method of additive manufacturing a three-dimensional object, which can prevent a blade from being caught by a deformed part that is generated due to an unpredictable change of a sintering condition. In the method of additive manufacturing the three-dimensional object, if a deformed part having any height is generated on the upper surface of the nth sintered layer, when the next n+1th sintered layer is formed, the n+1th powder layer is irradiated with laser by avoiding the region where the deformed part is generated. Then, after the n+2th powder layer is formed, the unsintered part is sintered together with the n+2th powder layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshio Kaji
  • Publication number: 20220023949
    Abstract: A lamination molding method, which repeats a material layer forming step of forming a material layer and a solidifying step of irradiating an irradiation region of the material layer with laser beams scanned by n scanners to form a solidified layer, includes: a first dividing step and an irradiation order deciding step. In the first dividing step, the irradiation region is divided to 2n-1 or more divided regions by a plurality of first dividing lines in a manner that irradiation time of each of the divided regions to which the laser beams are simultaneously irradiated becomes equal. In the irradiation order deciding step, an irradiation order of the divided regions in the solidifying step is decided in a manner that the laser beams are simultaneously irradiated to the divided regions that are not adjacent, and the laser beams are not simultaneously irradiated to the divided regions that are adjacent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro ARAIE, Toshio KAJI, Yasuyuki MIYASHITA, Katsuhiko KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210170526
    Abstract: An irradiation device of a lamination molding apparatus includes: at least one laser source, generating a laser beam; a first galvano scanner, scanning the laser beam; a second galvano scanner, scanning the laser beam; and an irradiation controller, controlling the laser source, the first galvano scanner, and the second galvano scanner. Irradiable ranges of the laser beams by using the first galvano scanner and the second galvano scanner respectively include an entire of a molding region. A first X-axis galvano mirror and a first Y-axis galvano mirror of the first galvano scanner and a second X-axis galvano mirror and a second Y-axis galvano mirror of the second galvano scanner are disposed to be plane-symmetric to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: SODICK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi KAWAMURA, Kensuke KASHIMURA, Toshio KAJI, Yoshifumi ICHIKAWA, Yasuyuki MIYASHITA
  • Publication number: 20200023434
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method of additive manufacturing a three-dimensional object, which can prevent a blade from being caught by a deformed part that is generated due to an unpredictable change of a sintering condition. In the method of additive manufacturing the three-dimensional object, if a deformed part having any height is generated on the upper surface of the nth sintered layer, when the next n+1th sintered layer is formed, the n+1th powder layer is irradiated with laser by avoiding the region where the deformed part is generated. Then, after the n+2th powder layer is formed, the unsintered part is sintered together with the n+2th powder layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: SODICK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshio KAJI
  • Patent number: 6476868
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus provided with an electronic zooming device for electronically enlarging the image around a selected position in the image area, and a display control circuit for displaying an area to be enlarged, in the image area, prior to the image enlargement in the electronic zooming operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshio Kaji, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Yukihiro Adachi, Kenji Kyuma, Kunihiko Yamada
  • Publication number: 20020018136
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus provided with an electronic zooming device for electronically enlarging the image around a selected position in the image area, and a display control circuit for displaying an area to be enlarged, in the image area, prior to the image enlargement in the electronic zooming operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 1995
    Publication date: February 14, 2002
    Inventors: TOSHIO KAJI, HIROYUKI SHIMIZU, YUKIHIRO ADACHI, KENJI KYUMA, KUNIHIKO YAMADA
  • Patent number: 6241094
    Abstract: An object of the present invention consists in providing a new spool case in which the stored spool can be held without contacting with it by hand, engaging or disengaging of the spool in respect to the bonding device can be carried out without having any relation with a length of the holder or presence or non-presence of an engaging means, a reliability in holding the spool is high and a spool held state can be easily maintained. In addition, solving means of the present invention can be handled such that the spool is held by the engaging pieces 7 arranged at the base 3 and the spool is not directly contacted with hand. The spool held state is maintained by the resilient engaging force of each of the engaging pieces 7 and this is not released so long as each of these engaging pieces 7 is not resiliently deformed and is not released from the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Tanaka Denshi Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadao Anjo, Osamu Sato, Toshio Kaji, Keiichi Nishimura
  • Patent number: 5838370
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus comprises an image enlargement circuit for enlarging an image around a viewpoint position in a picture and a control circuit for changing a focus detection area or a photometry area to an area having position and size adaptive to an enlarged image, prior to an enlargement operation by the image enlargement circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshio Kaji
  • Patent number: 5760830
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image pick-up device which uses a charge transfer type solid state image pick-up device, and further is provided with a shutter so as to form a high quality picture signal in such a manner that the smear is prevented by prohibiting the incidence of the light on the device while the charge is transferred in the device. Further, the device is driven by a clock signal for still photographing in order to obtain a high quality picture information for one frame surely. Further, the photographing parameter is automatically changed over or the monitor is changed over between the motion picture photographing mode and the still photographing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1998
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takao Kinoshita, Akihiko Tojo, Tsutomu Takayama, Toshio Kaji, Nobuyoshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 5362592
    Abstract: A decolorizable toner including a resin binder, a near infrared ray-absorbing dye, a decolorizing agent and a light fastness stabilizer, and a process for preparing the decolorizable toner, which includes the steps of mixing the near infrared ray-absorbing dye and the light fastness stabilizer with the resin binder, and then mixing the decolorizing agent therewith. The decolorizable toner has excellent light stability during its production or storage and excellent decolorizing property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Assignees: Showa Denko K.K., Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Murofushi, Yoshikazu Hosoda, Toshio Kaji, Yuki Abe, Kiyotaka Yamaguchi, Takayuki Yoshida, Jiro Yamashiro, Toshio Arai, Takayuki Nagase, Harushi Nagami
  • Patent number: 5309247
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image pick-up device which uses a charge transfer type solid state image pick-up device, and further is provided with a shutter so as to form a high quality picture signal in such a manner that the smear is prevented by prohibiting the incidence of the light on the device while the charge is transferred in the device. Further, the device is driven by a clock signal for still photographing in order to obtain a high quality picture information for one frame surely. Further, the photographing parameter is automatically changed over or the monitor is changed over between the motion picture photographing mode and the still photographing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1994
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takao Kinoshita, Akihiko Tojo, Tsutomu Takayama, Toshio Kaji, Nobuyoshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 5239368
    Abstract: A device performs color balance adjustment on the basis of color temperature information obtained by adding up measured color information outputs sampled from color sensors which obtain measured color information from an object to be photographed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masao Suzuki, Seiji Hashimoto, Akihiko Tojo, Tsutomu Takayama, Toshio Kaji
  • Patent number: 5122899
    Abstract: A recording and reproducing apparatus which is arranged to shorten a stand-by period and to suppress the appearance of noises comprises: a selection circuit arranged to select either a recording mode or a reproducing mode; and a control circuit which is arranged to operate, accxording to the result of detection of tracks on a recording medium, to shift a head to a vacant track on the medium when the recording mode is selected by the selection circuit, to shift the head to a recorded track on the medium when the reproducing mode is selected and to accomplish the shifting operation within a blanking period of a video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1992
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshio Kaji
  • Patent number: 5010418
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image pick-up device which uses a charge transfer type solid state image pick-up device, and further is provided with a shutter so as to form a high quality picture signal in such a manner that the smear is prevented by prohibiting the incidence of the light on the device while the charge is transferred in the device. Further, the device is driven by a clock signal for still photographing in order to obtain a high quality picture information for one frame surely. Further, the photographing parameter is automatically changed over or the monitor is changed over between the motion picture photographing mode and the still photographing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1991
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takao Kinoshita, Akihiko Tojo, Tsutomu Takayama, Toshio Kaji, Nobuyoshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 4922334
    Abstract: A color filter arrangement having complementary color filters for mounting on an image pickup having a plurality of picture elements. The color filters are arranged to overlie respective picture elements and are further arranged to overlap each other over boundaries between respective picture elements with widths wider than the boundaries between the respective picture elements, thereby offsetting any misalignment of the filter arrangement during cementing. Also, an image pickup device including an image pickup arrangement for converting an optical image into electrical image information, the pickup arrangement having a plurality of picture elements including first and second picture elements, and the pickup device further including a color filter member at least consisting of a first part which is provided for the first picture element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1990
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Seiji Hashimoto, Takao Kinoshita, Tsutomu Takayama, Toshio Kaji
  • Patent number: 4910606
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image pick-up device which uses a charge transfer type solid state image pick-up device, and further is provided with a shutter so as to form a high quality picture signal in such a manner that the smear is prevented by prohibiting the incidence of the light on the device while the charge is transferred in the device. Further, the device is driven by a clock signal for still photographing in order to obtain a high quality picture information for one frame surely. Further, the photographing parameter is automatically changed over or the monitor is changed over between the motion picture photographing mode and the still photographing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1990
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takao Kinoshita, Akihiko Tojo, Tsutomu Takayama, Toshio Kaji, Nobuyoshi Tanaka