Patents by Inventor Toshiyuki Miyata
Toshiyuki Miyata 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: 11982493Abstract: A thermally conductive pipe includes a pipe of which both end portions are closed, a working liquid that is sealed inside the pipe and vaporizes and liquefies, and a liquid transfer unit that exists along a longitudinal direction inside the pipe and transfers the liquefied working liquid at least in the longitudinal direction, in which the liquid transfer unit has, in a case of being viewed in a cross section of the pipe, which is orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, a first liquid transfer unit that is in contact with at least a partial range of an inner wall surface of the pipe and a second liquid transfer unit that is not in contact with the inner wall surface of the pipe and the first liquid transfer unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Toshiyuki Miyata, Toru Inoue, Kazuyoshi Itoh, Toko Hara, Keitaro Mori, Sou Morizaki, Motoharu Nakao, Kiyoshi Koyanagi
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Publication number: 20240142902Abstract: A heat pipe includes a tubular member that is a hollow member in which liquid is encapsulated and of which an inner surface is subjected to an oxidation treatment in advance and a movement section that moves the liquid encapsulated and liquefied in the tubular member along a longitudinal direction of the tubular member by means of a capillary phenomenon and of which a surface is subjected to an oxidation treatment in advance.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Kiyoshi KOYANAGI, Jouta Kobayashi, Keitaro Mori, Kazuyoshi Itoh, Toshiyuki Miyata, Toru Inoue
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Publication number: 20240134306Abstract: A fixing device includes a belt member that cyclically moves, a pressing unit that comes into contact with the belt member and presses a recording medium moving between the belt member and the pressing unit, and a heat source that includes a base material, a resistance heating element disposed on a surface of the base material along a longitudinal direction of the base material, and an insulator covering the resistance heating element and that comes into contact with the pressing unit via the belt member to heat an inner surface of the belt member, in which the insulator is formed to cover a corner portion of the base material in a direction of movement of the belt member.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation CorpInventors: Keitaro MORI, Toru INOUE, Toshiyuki MIYATA, Kiyoshi KOYANAGI, Sou MORIZAKI, Motoharu NAKAO, Kazuyoshi ITOH, Jouta KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 11946786Abstract: Provided is a diagnostic apparatus, including a diagnostic unit configured to diagnose a condition of a vortex flowmeter using a determination result of a magnitude of a signal component of each of at least one target detection signal among the at least one detection signal detected by the vortex flowmeter having a vortex generator and a detection unit configured to detect at least one detection signal according to a vortex generated by the vortex generator, or a magnitude of a signal component of at least one of combined signals configured to linearly combine two or more of the at least one detection signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: Yoshio Uomori, Shinji Kanno, Toshiyuki Miyata, Madoka Ueno
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Publication number: 20230324836Abstract: A heating device includes: a heater including plural heating portions that generate different amounts of heat in a width direction that crosses a transport direction in which a heating object is transported; and plural temperature equalization members that are disposed on the heater and extend in the width direction with an interval provided therebetween in the transport direction, the plural temperature equalization members equalizing a temperature of the heater in the width direction. One of the plural temperature equalization members has a length greater than or equal to a width of a maximum passing region of the heater through which the heating object passes when the heating object has a maximum width. A remaining one of the plural temperature equalization members has a length less than the length of the one of the plural temperature equalization members.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Toshiyuki Miyata, Toru Inoue, Kazuyoshi Itoh, Kiyoshi Koyanagi, Keitaro Mori, Sou Morizaki, Motoharu Nakao, Toko Hara
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Publication number: 20230244176Abstract: A heating device is provided. The heating device includes a heating unit, heating a member to be heated, which is transported, and a contact portion of the heating unit contacting with the member to be heated; a heat pipe, having a first end and a second end opposite to the first end in a widthwise direction, and contacting with a portion of the heating unit different from the contact portion so as to extend in the widthwise direction crossing a transport direction of the member to be heated; a rotating body, rotating so as to press the member to be heated; and a power input unit, having a gear disposed on a second end side of the heat pipe and inputting a rotational force at least to the rotating body. The first end of the heat pipe has a thickness smaller than that of the second end.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Sou MORIZAKI, Toru INOUE, Kazuyoshi ITOH, Toshiyuki MIYATA, Motoharu NAKAO, Kiyoshi KOYANAGI, Toko HARA
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Patent number: 11703782Abstract: A fixing device includes a movable belt; and a planar heat-generating section that is in contact with the belt and in which, among plural heat-generating portions provided in a movement direction of the belt, a heat-generating portion on an upstream side in the movement direction of the belt has a larger heat generation amount than a heat-generating portion on a downstream side.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: FUJTFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Kiyoshi Koyanagi, Toko Hara, Toshiyuki Miyata, Kazuyoshi Itoh, Keitaro Mori, Motoharu Nakao, Sou Morizaki, Toru Inoue
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Patent number: 11687019Abstract: A fixing device includes a rotatable endless belt; a planar heat-generating section in which at least a downstream end portion in a movement direction of the belt is in pressure contact with a rotating body via a pressure contact portion and a cross-sectional shape of a downstream edge portion being in contact with an inner surface of the belt is formed in a curved shape having a curvature radius of 0.01 mm or more 0.2 mm or less or in a shape in which the edge portion is cut out over the dimension; and a holding section that is disposed inside the belt and holds the planar heat-generating section to be in pressure contact with the rotating body.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Keitaro Mori, Toshiyuki Miyata, Kazuyoshi Itoh, Sou Morizaki, Kiyoshi Koyanagi, Motoharu Nakao, Toko Hara, Toru Inoue
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Patent number: 11624997Abstract: A heating device includes a heating unit that heats a member to be heated, which is transported, as a result of a contact portion of the heating unit being in contact with the member to be heated, a heat pipe that is disposed on a portion of the heating unit different from the contact portion in such a manner as to extend in a widthwise direction crossing a transport direction of the member to be heated and that includes a crimped portion formed at a first end of the heat pipe, a rotating body that rotates in such a manner as to press the member to be heated against the contact portion of the heating unit, and a power input unit that is disposed on a second end side of the heat pipe and that inputs a rotational force at least to the rotating body.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Sou Morizaki, Toru Inoue, Kazuyoshi Itoh, Toshiyuki Miyata, Motoharu Nakao, Kiyoshi Koyanagi, Toko Hara
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Publication number: 20220382195Abstract: A fixing device includes a movable belt; and a planar heat-generating section that is in contact with the belt and in which, among plural heat-generating portions provided in a movement direction of the belt, a heat-generating portion on an upstream side in the movement direction of the belt has a larger heat generation amount than a heat-generating portion on a downstream side.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2021Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Kiyoshi KOYANAGI, Toko HARA, Toshiyuki MIYATA, Kazuyoshi ITOH, Keitaro MORI, Motoharu NAKAO, Sou MORIZAKI, Toru INOUE
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Publication number: 20220382194Abstract: A fixing device includes a rotatable endless belt; a planar heat-generating section in which at least a downstream end portion in a movement direction of the belt is in pressure contact with a rotating body via a pressure contact portion and a cross-sectional shape of a downstream edge portion being in contact with an inner surface of the belt is formed in a curved shape having a curvature radius of 0.01 mm or more 0.2 mm or less or in a shape in which the edge portion is cut out over the dimension; and a holding section that is disposed inside the belt and holds the planar heat-generating section to be in pressure contact with the rotating body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2021Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Keitaro MORI, Toshiyuki MIYATA, Kazuyoshi ITOH, Sou MORIZAKI, Kiyoshi KOYANAGI, Motoharu NAKAO, Toko HARA, Toru INOUE
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Patent number: 11442386Abstract: A heating device includes a heating unit that heats a member to be heated, which is transported, as a result of a contact portion of the heating unit being in contact with the member to be heated, a heat pipe that contacts with a portion of the heating unit different from the contact portion in such a manner as to extend in a widthwise direction crossing a transport direction of the member to be heated and that includes a crimped portion formed at a first end of the heat pipe, and a power-supply connection unit that is disposed on a second end side of the heat pipe and that is connected to a wiring line through which power is supplied to the heating unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Kazuyoshi Itoh, Toshiyuki Miyata, Toko Hara, Kiyoshi Koyanagi, Sou Morizaki, Motoharu Nakao, Toru Inoue
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Patent number: 11378899Abstract: A thermally conductive pipe includes a pipe having closed both end portions; a working fluid that is enclosed in inside of the pipe and that is vaporized and liquefied; and a liquid transfer member that extends in a longitudinal direction of the inside of the pipe and that transfers the liquefied working fluid at least in the longitudinal direction. An occupancy rate of a cross-sectional area of the liquid transfer member to a cross-sectional area in a transverse direction of the inside of the pipe is in a range of 20% or more and 50% or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2021Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Toko Hara, Kiyoshi Koyanagi, Toshiyuki Miyata, Toru Inoue, Kazuyoshi Itoh, Sou Morizaki, Motoharu Nakao, Keitaro Mori
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Publication number: 20220196339Abstract: A thermally conductive pipe includes a pipe of which both end portions are closed, a working liquid that is sealed inside the pipe and vaporizes and liquefies, and a liquid transfer unit that exists along a longitudinal direction inside the pipe and transfers the liquefied working liquid at least in the longitudinal direction, in which the liquid transfer unit has, in a case of being viewed in a cross section of the pipe, which is orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, a first liquid transfer unit that is in contact with at least a partial range of an inner wall surface of the pipe and a second liquid transfer unit that is not in contact with the inner wall surface of the pipe and the first liquid transfer unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Toshiyuki MIYATA, Toru INOUE, Kazuyoshi ITOH, Toko HARA, Keitaro MORI, Sou MORIZAKI, Motoharu NAKAO, Kiyoshi KOYANAGI
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Publication number: 20220197190Abstract: A thermally conductive pipe includes a pipe having closed both end portions; a working fluid that is enclosed in inside of the pipe and that is vaporized and liquefied; and a liquid transfer member that extends in a longitudinal direction of the inside of the pipe and that transfers the liquefied working fluid at least in the longitudinal direction. An occupancy rate of a cross-sectional area of the liquid transfer member to a cross-sectional area in a transverse direction of the inside of the pipe is in a range of 20% or more and 50% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Toko HARA, Kiyoshi KOYANAGI, Toshiyuki MIYATA, Toru INOUE, Kazuyoshi ITOH, Sou MORIZAKI, Motoharu NAKAO, Keitaro MORI
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Publication number: 20220187111Abstract: Provided is a diagnostic apparatus, including a diagnostic unit configured to diagnose a condition of a vortex flowmeter using a determination result of a magnitude of a signal component of each of at least one target detection signal among the at least one detection signal detected by the vortex flowmeter having a vortex generator and a detection unit configured to detect at least one detection signal according to a vortex generated by the vortex generator, or a magnitude of a signal component of at least one of combined signals configured to linearly combine two or more of the at least one detection signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Yoshio UOMORI, Shinji KANNO, Toshiyuki MIYATA, Madoka UENO
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Patent number: 11334010Abstract: A heating device includes a surface heater unit including a heater portion that generates heat in a region extending in a longitudinal direction, the surface heater unit heating a heating object; and a heat conducting unit having a hollow space in which working fluid is sealed and including a working-fluid transport unit that transports the working liquid in the longitudinal direction, the heat conducting unit being in contact with the surface heater unit. The working-fluid transport unit is provided unevenly in a direction crossing the longitudinal direction in the hollow space.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Toshiyuki Miyata, Kazuyoshi Itoh, Toru Inoue, Toko Hara, Motoharu Nakao, Sou Morizaki, Kiyoshi Koyanagi
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Publication number: 20210364963Abstract: A heating device includes a heating unit that heats a member to be heated, which is transported, as a result of a contact portion of the heating unit being in contact with the member to be heated, a heat pipe that contacts with a portion of the heating unit different from the contact portion in such a manner as to extend in a widthwise direction crossing a transport direction of the member to be heated and that includes a crimped portion formed at a first end of the heat pipe, and a power-supply connection unit that is disposed on a second end side of the heat pipe and that is connected to a wiring line through which power is supplied to the heating unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Kazuyoshi ITOH, Toshiyuki MIYATA, Toko HARA, Kiyoshi KOYANAGI, Sou MORIZAKI, Motoharu NAKAO, Toru INOUE
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Publication number: 20210302881Abstract: A heating device includes a surface heater unit including a heater portion that generates heat in a region extending in a longitudinal direction, the surface heater unit heating a heating object; and a heat conducting unit having a hollow space in which working fluid is sealed and including a working-fluid transport unit that transports the working liquid in the longitudinal direction, the heat conducting unit being in contact with the surface heater unit. The working-fluid transport unit is provided unevenly in a direction crossing the longitudinal direction in the hollow space.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2020Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Toshiyuki MIYATA, Kazuyoshi ITOH, Toru INOUE, Toko HARA, Motoharu NAKAO, Sou MORIZAKI, Kiyoshi KOYANAGI
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Publication number: 20210302897Abstract: A heating device includes a heating unit that heats a member to be heated, which is transported, as a result of a contact portion of the heating unit being in contact with the member to be heated, a heat pipe that is disposed on a portion of the heating unit different from the contact portion in such a manner as to extend in a widthwise direction crossing a transport direction of the member to be heated and that includes a crimped portion formed at a first end of the heat pipe, a rotating body that rotates in such a manner as to press the member to be heated against the contact portion of the heating unit, and a power input unit that is disposed on a second end side of the heat pipe and that inputs a rotational force at least to the rotating body.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2020Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Sou MORIZAKI, Toru INOUE, Kazuyoshi ITOH, Toshiyuki MIYATA, Motoharu NAKAO, Kiyoshi KOYANAGI, Toko HARA