Patents by Inventor Yasufumi Inoue

Yasufumi Inoue 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: 11369978
    Abstract: An injection head for liquid fire extinguishing agent that has an injection head including an injection head body connecting with a pipe providing the liquid fire extinguishing agent, an orifice plate arranged in the injection head body and formed with an orifice through which flowing the liquid fire extinguishing agent and, a porous member having a block shape arranged in an exiting part of the orifice and, a baffle plate arranged contacting with an end surface of the porous member opposite side of the exiting part of the orifice; and the baffle plate covers at least a projected area of a circumscribed circle of the orifice of the end surface of the porous member and, the liquid fire extinguishing agent is released via a gap formed between the injection head body and the baffle plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: KOATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasufumi Inoue, Masahiro Yabushita, Mitsunori Kamo, Keiichiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11324979
    Abstract: In order to provide a portable fire extinguisher suitable for first-aid fire extinguishing, the fire extinguisher, using as the fire-extinguishing agent inert gas, etc. not limited in the object to be extinguished and the method of use due to toxicity to human body and making easy to maintain the necessary concentration of the fire-extinguishing agent, thus securing the effective fire-extinguishing effect, has the fire-extinguishing agent storage container to which the nozzle portion to discharge the fire-extinguishing agent is connected and made portable so as to be able to discharge the fire-extinguishing agent toward the object to be extinguished, and the nitrogen gas is stored in the fire-extinguishing agent storage container and at the outlet portion of the flow route of the fire-extinguishing agent formed in the nozzle portion, a metallic porous member in installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: KOATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasufumi Inoue, Mitsunori Kamo
  • Patent number: 11256450
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an operation panel, a document transport device, an image reader, and a control device. The document transport device transports a source document while a moving document reading job is being performed. The image reader reads the source document being transported by the document transport device. The control device suspends the moving document reading job, when jam occurs during the moving document reading job, and displays, on the operation panel, a preview image of the non-blank page that has been read last in the period from the start of the moving document reading job to the suspension thereof, when the page last read in the period from the start of the moving document reading job to the suspension thereof is the blank page, and the number of blank pages read is two or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yasufumi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20210326080
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an operation panel, a document transport device, an image reader, and a control device. The document transport device transports a source document while a moving document reading job is being performed. The image reader reads the source document being transported by the document transport device. The control device suspends the moving document reading job, when jam occurs during the moving document reading job, and displays, on the operation panel, a preview image of the non-blank page that has been read last in the period from the start of the moving document reading job to the suspension thereof, when the page last read in the period from the start of the moving document reading job to the suspension thereof is the blank page, and the number of blank pages read is two or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yasufumi INOUE
  • Patent number: 11130010
    Abstract: An injection head is configured to discharge a liquefied fire-extinguishing agent. The injection head includes an injection head body configured to be connected to piping for supplying the liquefied fire-extinguishing agent; an orifice plate positioned in the injection head body, the orifice plate including orifices defined therein; a block-shaped porous member positioned at an outlet of the orifice plate; and a deflector positioned across from the block-shaped porous member such that a discharging clearance for the liquefied fire-extinguishing agent is defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: KOATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasufumi Inoue, Masahiro Yabushita, Mitsunori Kamo
  • Publication number: 20210252530
    Abstract: An injection head for liquid fire extinguishing agent that has an injection head including an injection head body connecting with a pipe providing the liquid fire extinguishing agent, an orifice plate arranged in the injection head body and formed with an orifice through which flowing the liquid fire extinguishing agent and, a porous member having a block shape arranged in an exiting part of the orifice and, a baffle plate arranged contacting with an end surface of the porous member opposite side of the exiting part of the orifice; and the baffle plate covers at least a projected area of a circumscribed circle of the orifice of the end surface of the porous member and, the liquid fire extinguishing agent is released via a gap formed between the injection head body and the baffle plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Yasufumi INOUE, Masahiro YABUSHITA, Mitsunori KAMO, Keiichiro WATANABE
  • Patent number: 10908543
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an input device, an image forming device, and a control device. The control device includes a processor, and acts, when the processor executes a control program, as a controller that, upon receipt of an instruction to form a source document image on a first face of a plurality of recording media through the input device, causes the image forming device to form the source document image on the first face of the plurality of recording media, designates a recording medium on which a see-through prevention image, constituted of a predetermined pattern, is to be formed, out of the plurality of recording media, and causes the image forming device to form the see-through prevention image only on a second face, opposite to the first face, of the recording medium designated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yasufumi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20200379391
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an input device, an image forming device, and a control device. The control device includes a processor, and acts, when the processor executes a control program, as a controller that, upon receipt of an instruction to form a source document image on a first face of a plurality of recording media through the input device, causes the image forming device to form the source document image on the first face of the plurality of recording media, designates a recording medium on which a see-through prevention image, constituted of a predetermined pattern, is to be formed, out of the plurality of recording media, and causes the image forming device to form the see-through prevention image only on a second face, opposite to the first face, of the recording medium designated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yasufumi INOUE
  • Publication number: 20200353300
    Abstract: By making it to provide an injection head having silencing function for gas-type fire extinguisher and method for storing and assembling thereof capable of eliminating the problems of limitations of place of storage and the cost increase, by making it easy to storage the injection head as stock, the injection head is comprising an injection head main body forming a connecting part for connecting a pipe, an orifice plate forming orifice disposed in the injection head main body for passing the fire extinguishing gas, and a silencing member of block shapes formed on porous material capable of passing the fire extinguishing gas disposed at the outlet side of the orifice plate for releasing the fire extinguishing gas, wherein the orifice plate is disposed detachably in the injection head main body through an opening in the side of a connecting part connected to a piping of the injection head main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: Koatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasufumi INOUE, Masahiro YABUSHITA
  • Publication number: 20200139174
    Abstract: Injection head to be installed to discharge the liquefied fire-extinguishing agent to the fire-extinguishing subject area in the fire-extinguishing equipment to use the liquefied fire-extinguishing agent, and it is equipped with injection head proper to which piping to supply the liquefied fire-extinguishing agent is connected, orifice plate forming orifices installed to the injection head proper, block-shaped porous member 4 installed at the outlet of the orifices, and deflector installed across discharging clearance of the liquefied fire-extinguishing agent to the porous member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Yasufumi INOUE, Masahiro YABUSHITA, Mitsunori KAMO
  • Patent number: 10574813
    Abstract: To provide a private branch exchange system that can take appropriate measures for a user designated incoming call even when the user takes an unscheduled action. A user status determination part of the private branch exchange transmits, when receives a user designated incoming call, the position confirmation request to the mobile cellular apparatus identified by the mobile cellular apparatus information of the user information. The incoming call control part of the private branch exchange forwards, if the user current position received from the mobile cellular apparatus is different from the schedule information, an incoming call to a telephone set installed near the user and having an extension telephone number based on the user current position and the layout information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yasufumi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20190245968
    Abstract: To provide a private branch exchange system that can take appropriate measures for a user designated incoming call even when the user takes an unscheduled action. A user status determination part of the private branch exchange transmits, when receives a user designated incoming call, the position confirmation request to the mobile cellular apparatus identified by the mobile cellular apparatus information of the user information. The incoming call control part of the private branch exchange forwards, if the user current position received from the mobile cellular apparatus is different from the schedule information, an incoming call to a telephone set installed near the user and having an extension telephone number based on the user current position and the layout information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2018
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yasufumi INOUE
  • Publication number: 20190175967
    Abstract: In order to provide a portable fire extinguisher suitable for first-aid fire extinguishing, the fire extinguisher, using as the fire-extinguishing agent inert gas, etc. not limited in the object to be extinguished and the method of use due to toxicity to human body and making easy to maintain the necessary concentration of the fire-extinguishing agent, thus securing the effective fire-extinguishing effect, has the fire-extinguishing agent storage container to which the nozzle portion to discharge the fire-extinguishing agent is connected and made portable so as to be able to discharge the fire-extinguishing agent toward the object to be extinguished, and the nitrogen gas is stored in the fire-extinguishing agent storage container and at the outlet portion of the flow route of the fire-extinguishing agent formed in the nozzle portion, a metallic porous member in installed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Yasufumi INOUE, Mitsunori KAMO
  • Patent number: 10258816
    Abstract: An injection head includes a silencing unit installed for releasing a fire-extinguishing gas in a fire-extinguishing area in the gas type fire extinguisher using a fire-extinguishing gas. The silencing unit includes silencing members of block shapes made of a porous material capable of passing a gas disposed at an outlet of an orifice. A first end face of the silencing member is disposed in contact with the injector head main body, while a peripheral face and a second end face of the silencing member are opened to the atmosphere except for the portion contacting a ring member for fixing the silencing member to the injection head main body by a bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Koatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Yabushita, Yasufumi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20140069663
    Abstract: [Problem] To present an injection head for gas-type fire exchanger using an injection head of a small size, capable of enhancing the noise reduction rate, and lowering the injection reaction of the fire-extinguishing gas applied to the injection head at the time of release of the fire-extinguishing gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: Koatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Yabushita, Yasufumi Inoue