Patents Examined by Stephanie E Bloss
  • Patent number: 11966175
    Abstract: An intermediate transfer belt cleaning system includes an intermediate transfer belt that has an outer peripheral surface to which a toner image is to be transferred and a cleaning device having a cleaning blade that comes into contact with the outer peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer belt to clean the outer peripheral surface, in which the cleaning blade has a peak value (tan ?p) of a loss tangent of 0.25 or more and 0.40 or less at a frequency of 1 Hz and a loss tangent (tan ?22) of 0.20 or more and 0.35 or less at 22° C. at a frequency of 1 Hz, the tan ?p and the tan ?22 being determined by measuring temperature dependence of viscoelasticity of the cleaning blade, and a coefficient D of dynamic friction between the intermediate transfer belt and the cleaning blade is 0.30 or more and 0.80 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Yoshiro Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11966176
    Abstract: A transfer member includes: an inner layer; and an outer layer that is adhered to the inner layer and has a hardness lower than a hardness of the inner layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Tanaka, Tomoaki Yoshioka, Yoko Miyamoto, Toshiaki Baba, Koichiro Yuasa, Kazuyoshi Hagiwara, Kei Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11960231
    Abstract: A transfer device includes an intermediate transfer member that has an outer peripheral surface to which a toner image is to be transferred, a primary transfer device that has a primary transfer member performing primary transfer of a toner image formed on a surface of an image holder to the outer peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer member, a secondary transfer device that has a secondary transfer member which is arranged in contact with the outer peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer member and performs secondary transfer of the toner image transferred to the outer peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer member to a surface of a recording medium, and a cleaning device that has a cleaning blade cleaning the outer peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer member, in which a coefficient D of dynamic friction between the intermediate transfer member and the cleaning blade is 0.2 or more and 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Yoshiro Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11962348
    Abstract: An audiometer system including an audiometer device that includes an audiometer digital signal processing (DSP) unit, an audiometer baseband processing unit positioned, and an audiometer light-based transceiver. The system further includes a transducer including a transducer light-based transceiver in optical communication with the audiometer light-based transceiver, a transducer baseband processing unit, a transducer processor unit, and an audio speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Natus Medical Incorporated
    Inventor: Ningzhou Cui
  • Patent number: 11959818
    Abstract: A method for predicting the explosion pressure of a medium- and large-size cell module, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: (S100) deriving a profile (SOC-temperature profile) of the generation temperature according to a state of charge (SOC) of a medium- and large-size cell module to be predicted; (S200) mounting a small cell inside an explosion pressure measurement device; (S300) overcharging the small cell until an explosion occurs while heating the small cell in the same manner as the SOC-temperature profile derived in step (S100); (S400) measuring the pressure during the explosion of the small cell; and (S500) converting the pressure during the explosion of the measured small cell into pressure of a medium- and large-size cell module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Hye Park, Su Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 11959896
    Abstract: A transfer line for a GCMS arrangement, the transfer line comprising: a transfer probe having a probe bore to receive a GC column; a sealing cap movably mounted at a first end of the transfer probe; and a resilient element arranged to bias the sealing cap away from the first end of the transfer probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Micromass UK Limited
    Inventors: Carl Chen, Richard Jarrold, Pham Hoang Vu Ngo, William Ngo, Dennis Ong, Richard Tyldesley-Worster, Arvind Rangan, Chris Wheeldon
  • Patent number: 11960226
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, a developing member to supply a toner to the photosensitive member at a developing portion, and a transfer member to transfer a toner image to a recording material passing through a transfer portion from the photosensitive member. In a case which the transfer is performed to a shorter width recording material and thereafter, the transfer is successively performed to a longer width recording material, a control portion controls a first back contrast formed when an area of a surface of the photosensitive member corresponding to the transfer portion through which the shorter width recording material is passing reaches the developing portion, and a second back contrast formed when an area of the surface corresponding to the transfer portion through which the longer width recording material is passing reaches the developing portion so that the second back contrast is higher than the first back contrast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroki Sasame, Tomoo Akizuki
  • Patent number: 11960199
    Abstract: A projection screen includes an optical collimating layer and a surface diffusion layer which are arranged in sequence. A grating absorption layer for absorbing ambient light from various directions except a projection light direction is also provided between the optical collimating layer and the surface diffusion layer. The grating absorption layer includes a plurality of light-absorption ring-shaped units with different radii. The plurality of light-absorption ring-shaped units are arranged in a concentric ring. Each of the light-absorption ring-shaped units consists of a plurality of gratings arranged in the circumferential direction of the concentric ring. By taking a vertical symmetrical center line of the projection screen as a center, in a direction extending along the circumferential direction of the concentric ring to the left side and the right side of the projection screen, the distance between two adjacent gratings in the same light-absorption ring-shaped unit gradually increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: APPOTRONICS CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Fei Hu, Wei Sun, Lin Wang, Yi Li
  • Patent number: 11960221
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a belt, a plurality of stretching rollers including an inner roller and an upstream roller, an outer member, an urging member, a first position changing mechanism, a storing portion, a controller, and an operating portion. The controller controls the first position changing mechanism on the basis of a kind of a recording material on which an image is formed, first set information stored in the storing portion, and first input information for changing setting of a position of the urging member inputted to the controller through the operating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryosuke Tsuruga, Yutaka Kakehi, Tatsuya Kohno, Manato Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11953810
    Abstract: A holding and moving device includes a support foot, a bearing arm secured pivotably onto the support foot to form a useful load side section and a weight-side section, a first pivot arm connected to the useful load side section of the bearing arm for attachment of a useful load and/or holding device for a useful load, and a second pivot arm connected to the weight-side section of the bearing arm for attachment of a balance weight. The bearing arm and the first and second pivot arms are connected to one another such that the alignment of the first and second pivot arms are essentially parallel to one another in each position. The second pivot arm and/or the weight-side section are designed such that the weight of the first pivot arm and/or of the useful load side section is balanced in each position of the holding and moving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Cinetica GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Lukas, Matthias Müller, Jan Riepert, Tojan Bieber
  • Patent number: 11953849
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises a main body casing; a fixing unit which fixes a developer to a sheet by means of heating and pressurization; a fan which is provided to discharge air inside the main body casing to outside of the main body casing; and a controller. The fixing unit includes a heating unit which heats the sheet; and a temperature sensor which detects a temperature of the heating unit. When the fixing unit is fixing the developer to the sheet, the controller is configured to: determine a heating unit temperature based on the temperature detected by the temperature sensor; stop the fan in a case of determining that the heating unit temperature is not less than a threshold value; and drive the fan in a case of determining that the heating unit temperature is less than the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tatsuya Koyama
  • Patent number: 11945376
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a recreational vehicle camera with a marker light. The recreational vehicle camera with a marker light includes a mounting housing, a lamp body assembly, a camera assembly, and a rear mounting cover. The mounting housing is provided with an accommodating cavity, a first routing hole and a second routing hole. The lamp body assembly is provided with a first cable. The camera assembly is provided with a second cable. The rear mounting cover is provided with a first cable outlet hole. The rear mounting cover is used for being fixedly connected to a recreational vehicle. The rear mounting cover detachably covers the accommodating cavity. The first cable and the second cable are threaded out of the first cable outlet hole and are electrically connected to a circuit in the recreational vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventor: Xiangwen Lin
  • Patent number: 11947304
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes: a cleaning brush that has bristles that rotate and contact a surface, to which toner has adhered, of a cleaning member to be cleaned, the cleaning brush removing the toner adhered to the surface of the cleaning member; a first contact member that contacts the bristles without a position of the first contact member relative to a position of the cleaning brush being changed; and a second contact member that contacts the bristles at a location downstream from the first contact member in a direction of rotation of the cleaning brush and without a position of the second contact member relative to the position of the cleaning brush being changed, and that is disposed on an extension line extended from a line between an axial center of the cleaning brush and a base of the bristles that move away from the first contact member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Haruyuki Ideura, Daisuke Tanaka, Takeshi Yasuda, Kaoru Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11947290
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes first and second rotatable members forming a nip therebetween, a heater disposed in inside of the second rotatable member, a first temperature sensor provided on a center of the heater, a second temperature sensor provided on an end side of the heater. A controller controls a feeding interval in which a trailing edge of a preceding sheet passes through the nip until a leading edge of a subsequent sheet reaches the nip. The controller controls the feeding interval to be a first interval in a case which a feeding speed of the sheet is a first speed and a detected temperature by the second sensor is a first temperature, and to be a second interval shorter than the first interval in a case which the feeding speed is a second speed lower than the first speed and the detected temperature is the first temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakamoto, Kazuhiro Doda
  • Patent number: 11940745
    Abstract: A fixing device includes: a heating section that heats in a non-contact manner a front surface of a recording medium; a feeding section that feeds the recording medium while causing the front surface to be opposed to the heating section; and a maintaining section that, in order to enable the recording medium to be fed by the feeding section while a rear surface that is opposite to the front surface, and that is in an image region where an unfixed-image is formed on the front surface is in a non-contact state, maintains the non-contact state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Takayuki Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11940275
    Abstract: A vibrator device includes a vibrator element, and a support substrate configured to support the vibrator element. The vibrator element includes a drive arm provided with a drive signal electrode and a drive constant-potential electrode, and a detection arm provided with a detection signal electrode and a detection constant-potential electrode. The support substrate includes a base, and a drive signal interconnection electrically coupled to the drive signal electrode, a drive constant-potential interconnection electrically coupled to the drive constant-potential electrode, and a detection signal interconnection electrically coupled to the detection signal electrode all provided to the base, and the drive arm includes a first surface located at the support substrate side, and a second surface located at an opposite side to the first surface. Further, the drive constant-potential electrode is disposed on the first surface, and the drive signal electrode is disposed on the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiichiro Ogura, Keiichi Yamaguchi, Ryuta Nishizawa
  • Patent number: 11933806
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a measuring transducer of a measurement device for registering a mass flow or a density of a medium The measuring transducer includes a measuring tube, at least one exciter adapted to excite the measuring tube to execute oscillations, and two sensors adapted to register deflection of oscillations of the measuring tube. The exciter and the sensors each have a coil device including a circuit board with a first coefficient of thermal expansion. The coil device of the sensors or exciter are/is secured using a holder apparatus adapted to clamp the circuit board, wherein the circuit board is mechanically contacted by the holder apparatus using at least one holder element, wherein the holder element has a second coefficient of thermal expansion, wherein the first coefficient of thermal expansion and the second coefficient of thermal expansion differ from one another by less than 3*10?6/Kelvin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner, Claude Hollinger, Martin Stucki
  • Patent number: 11933642
    Abstract: A two-wire displacement sensor device includes an LC oscillation circuit including a coil whose inductance changes in accordance with a displacement amount of an object and an oscillation unit provided with capacitors and amplifying elements; and an interface unit serving as a signal output unit and a power supply input unit. The interface unit includes a constant current circuit that outputs at least two current values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yosuke Murakami
  • Patent number: 11934122
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a temperature sensor, a conveyance control portion, a driving control portion, an adjustment processing portion, and a stop processing portion. The temperature sensor is provided apart from a contact position between a fixing member and a transferred sheet to which a toner image has been transferred. The conveyance control portion continuously executes conveyance processes of conveying the transferred sheet. The driving control portion controls driving of a heater for heating the fixing member so that a temperature detected by the temperature sensor matches a predetermined temperature. The adjustment processing portion restricts the execution of the conveyance process until an adjustment process of adjusting a formation condition of the transferred sheet is completed. The stop processing portion stops the continuous execution of the conveyance processes when the restriction on the execution of the conveyance process continues beyond a predetermined timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Odaka
  • Patent number: 11933697
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for closed sampling from filling plants comprising the following steps in: filling a sample quantity into a container (1) with a wall (3); applying a reinforcing element (20) to the container (1) with the wall; introducing a fracture point (22) into the wall of the container (1) in the area of the reinforcing element (20); introducing a sampling attachment (30) with hollow tube (40) into the wall of the container (1) in the area of the fracture point (22); filling a sample container (50) connected to the hollow tube (40) once or several times; removing the sample container (50) from the hollow tube (40) and closing the sample container (50); removing the sampling attachment (30) with hollow tube (40) from the container; and sealing the fracture point (22) of the container in the area of the reinforcing element (20). The subject matter of the invention is also a sampling device, in particular for carrying out the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Wirth, Tim Baatz, Georg Dziewas