Patents by Inventor Akira Kosugi

Akira Kosugi 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: 12194733
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of executing a single-sided recording mode in which an image is recorded on one side of a recording medium and a double-sided recording mode in which an image is recorded on both sides of the recording medium, the image forming apparatus includes: a first temperature adjustment device that adjusts a temperature of the recording medium; an inkjet head that ejects ink onto a surface of the recording medium; a reverse unit that reverses front and back surfaces of the recording medium by switching a conveying direction of the recording medium when the double-sided recording mode is executed; a second temperature adjustment device that controls the temperature of the recording medium in which the front and back surfaces are reversed; and a control device that controls at least one of the first and second temperature adjustment devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Akira Kosugi, Shinji Morita
  • Publication number: 20240424812
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a conveyance section, an attraction section, an image forming section, and a hardware processor. The conveyance section includes conveyance surfaces on each of which a sheet can be placed and that conveys the sheet placed thereon. The attraction section that attracts the sheet onto the conveyance surfaces by sucking air from suction holes. The image forming section forms an image on the sheet. When a decrease of an attraction force by the attraction section is caused in executing a print job, the hardware processor causes one or more of the conveyance surfaces to suck and convey a non-print job sheet and then causes the one or more of the conveyance surfaces to consecutively suck and convey a print job sheet, and does not perform image formation on the non-print job sheet and performs the image formation on the print job sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventor: Akira KOSUGI
  • Patent number: 11699666
    Abstract: A semiconductor device in which occurrence of peeling between a filling member and a metal terminal is suppressed is obtained. The semiconductor device includes: an insulating substrate having a front surface and a back surface, and having a semiconductor element joined to the front surface; a base plate joined to the back surface of insulating substrate; a case member surrounding insulating substrate; a filling member having an upper surface, covering insulating substrate, and filling a region surrounded by base plate and case member; and a metal member having a plate shape that leans toward an upper surface side of filling member inside filling member, has one end joined to the front surface of insulating substrate and another end separated from an inner wall of case member, and is exposed from the upper surface of filling member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Kosugi
  • Publication number: 20230173835
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of executing a single-sided recording mode in which an image is recorded on one side of a recording medium and a double-sided recording mode in which an image is recorded on both sides of the recording medium, the image forming apparatus includes: a first temperature adjustment device that adjusts a temperature of the recording medium; an inkjet head that ejects ink onto a surface of the recording medium; a reverse unit that reverses front and back surfaces of the recording medium by switching a conveying direction of the recording medium when the double-sided recording mode is executed; a second temperature adjustment device that controls the temperature of the recording medium in which the front and back surfaces are reversed; and a control device that controls at least one of the first and second temperature adjustment devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Akira KOSUGI, Shinji MORITA
  • Patent number: 11450594
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: semiconductor elements and; a lead frame including a mount having an upper surface over which the semiconductor elements and are mounted; a sealing resin sealing the lead frame and the semiconductor elements and so that outer leads and of the lead frame protrude outwardly; and a resin wall located on an inner lead between the outer lead and the mount of the lead frame. A vertical thickness of the resin wall is greater than a vertical thickness from a lower surface of the sealing resin to a lower end of the lead frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Harada, Akira Kosugi, Takamasa Iwai
  • Publication number: 20220293434
    Abstract: A mold die includes a resin injection gate through which fluid resin serving as mold resin is injected toward a cavity, a resin reservoir to store the fluid resin flowing through the cavity, and a resin reservoir gate. The resin reservoir is provided on the side opposite to the side on which the resin injection gate is arranged with the cavity interposed. The resin reservoir gate communicatively connects the cavity and the resin reservoir. The opening cross-sectional area of the resin reservoir gate is smaller than the opening cross-sectional area of the resin injection gate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takamasa IWAI, Yuichiro SUZUKI, Akitoshi SHIRAO, Akira KOSUGI, Junji FUJINO
  • Patent number: 11164812
    Abstract: In a semiconductor device, lead frame includes a die pad. The die pad includes a mounting surface and a back surface. The mounting surface includes first and second mounting regions. The back surface includes first and second back regions. The first and second semiconductor elements are mounted on the first and second mounting regions, respectively. The first and second back regions are located on opposite sides from the first and second mounting regions, respectively. The mold resin has the first semiconductor element, the second semiconductor element, and the die pad encapsulated therein and is in direct contact with the second back region. The insulation sheet is disposed on the first back region to be exposed outside the mold resin, the insulation sheet having a thermal conductivity higher than a thermal conductivity of the mold resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Kosugi
  • Publication number: 20210118815
    Abstract: A semiconductor device in which occurrence of peeling between a filling member and a metal terminal is suppressed is obtained. The semiconductor device includes: an insulating substrate having a front surface and a back surface, and having a semiconductor element joined to the front surface; a base plate joined to the back surface of insulating substrate; a case member surrounding insulating substrate; a filling member having an upper surface, covering insulating substrate, and filling a region surrounded by base plate and case member; and a metal member having a plate shape that leans toward an upper surface side of filling member inside filling member, has one end joined to the front surface of insulating substrate and another end separated from an inner wall of case member, and is exposed from the upper surface of filling member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Akira KOSUGI
  • Publication number: 20200343173
    Abstract: In a semiconductor device, lead frame includes a die pad. The die pad includes a mounting surface and a back surface. The mounting surface includes first and second mounting regions. The back surface includes first and second back regions. The first and second semiconductor elements are mounted on the first and second mounting regions, respectively. The first and second back regions are located on opposite sides from the first and second mounting regions, respectively. The mold resin has the first semiconductor element, the second semiconductor element, and the die pad encapsulated therein and is in direct contact with the second back region. The insulation sheet is disposed on the first back region to be exposed outside the mold resin, the insulation sheet having a thermal conductivity higher than a thermal conductivity of the mold resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Akira KOSUGI
  • Publication number: 20200176366
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: semiconductor elements and; a lead frame including a mount having an upper surface over which the semiconductor elements and are mounted; a sealing resin sealing the lead frame and the semiconductor elements and so that outer leads and of the lead frame protrude outwardly; and a resin wall located on an inner lead between the outer lead and the mount of the lead frame. A vertical thickness of the resin wall is greater than a vertical thickness from a lower surface of the sealing resin to a lower end of the lead frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HARADA, Akira KOSUGI, Takamasa IWAI
  • Patent number: 8800988
    Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus which includes a sheet loading tray for stacking sheets; a suction and conveyance section which is placed above stacked sheets on the sheet loading tray and sucks and conveys a sheet in the sheet conveying direction; an air blowing section which blows air at the stacked sheets on the sheet loading tray and causes the sheet to float up; and a skew correction section which corrects a skew of the sheet conveyed by the suction and conveyance section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoo Suzuki, Akira Kosugi, Daisuke Ueda
  • Patent number: 8590886
    Abstract: An air-suction sheet supplying device includes a sheet stacking plate to stack recording sheets; an air-suction duct, arranged to face a top surface of the recording sheet stacked on the sheet stacking plate, and having an air-suction opening with a predetermined width; a belt member, rotatably arranged so as to cover the air-suction opening, and having plural areas having various distributions of suction holes in a direction perpendicular to a conveying direction; a driving section to rotate the belt member; a detecting section to detect a position of the belt member in a rotating direction; and a control section to operate the driving section so as to set a starting position of suction work, in a conveying direction of the belt member, on an area having suitable distribution of the suction holes, based on information detected by the detecting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Akira Kosugi
  • Patent number: 8439348
    Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus which includes: a sheet loading tray for stacking sheets; a suction and conveyance section placed above stacked sheets on the sheet loading tray and sucks and conveys a sheet in the sheet conveying direction; an air blowing section which blows air at the stacked sheets on the sheet loading tray and causes the sheet to float up; a skew correction section which is provided with a pair of conveyance rollers, and corrects a skew of the sheet being conveyed by the suction and conveyance section; and a control section which controls a force of sucking the sheet, wherein the control section changes the force of sucking the sheet from a first level to a second level that is lower than the first level, before a leading edge of the sheet butts against a pair of conveyance rollers of the skew correction section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoo Suzuki, Akira Kosugi, Daisuke Ueda
  • Patent number: 8336879
    Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus which includes a sheet loading tray for stacking sheets; a suction and conveyance section which is placed above stacked sheets on the sheet loading tray and sucks and conveys a sheet in the sheet conveying direction; an air blowing section which blows air at the stacked sheets on the sheet loading tray and causes the sheet to float up; and a skew correction section which corrects a skew of the sheet conveyed by the suction and conveyance section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoo Suzuki, Akira Kosugi, Daisuke Ueda
  • Patent number: 8201818
    Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus is provided with a sheet feeding device 60, a first air blow device 40 to blow air towards a side edge of a sheet bundle and a sheet side regulation member 71. The sheet side edge regulation member is provided with an air outlet 72 to blow air towards the side edge of the sheet bundle and an exhaust outlet 73 to exhaust air accumulated between a sheet separated from the sheet bundle and the sheet bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Ueda, Akira Kosugi
  • Patent number: 8167298
    Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes: a sheet feeding tray adapted to stack a sheet bundle including a plurality of sheets thereon; a blowing section which blows air against a leading edge of the sheet bundle in a sheet conveyance direction from a front side of the sheet conveyance direction; a sticking and conveying section which sticks an uppermost sheet stacked on the sheet feeding tray by air sucking, and feeds the uppermost sheet to a conveyance roller; a sucking duct provided inside the sticking and conveying section, which is divided into a plurality of ducts in the sheet conveyance direction; and an intercepting member which intercepts at least one of the plurality of divided ducts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Ueda, Akira Kosugi
  • Publication number: 20120074639
    Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus which includes: a sheet loading tray for stacking sheets; a suction and conveyance section placed above stacked sheets on the sheet loading tray and sucks and conveys a sheet in the sheet conveying direction; an air blowing section which blows air at the stacked sheets on the sheet loading tray and causes the sheet to float up; a skew correction section which is provided with a pair of conveyance rollers, and corrects a skew of the sheet being conveyed by the suction and conveyance section; and a control section which controls a force of sucking the sheet, wherein the control section changes the force of sucking the sheet from a first level to a second level that is lower than the first level, before a leading edge of the sheet butts against a pair of conveyance rollers of the skew correction section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoo SUZUKI, Akira KOSUGI, Daisuke UEDA
  • Publication number: 20110198797
    Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus which includes a sheet loading tray for stacking sheets; a suction and conveyance section which is placed above stacked sheets on the sheet loading tray and sucks and conveys a sheet in the sheet conveying direction; an air blowing section which blows air at the stacked sheets on the sheet loading tray and causes the sheet to float up; and a skew correction section which corrects a skew of the sheet conveyed by the suction and conveyance section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoo SUZUKI, Akira KOSUGI, Daisuke UEDA
  • Publication number: 20110198798
    Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus which includes a sheet loading tray for stacking sheets; a suction and conveyance section which is placed above stacked sheets on the sheet loading tray and sucks and conveys a sheet in the sheet conveying direction; an air blowing section which blows air at the stacked sheets on the sheet loading tray and causes the sheet to float up; and a skew correction section which corrects a skew of the sheet conveyed by the suction and conveyance section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoo SUZUKI, Akira KOSUGI, Daisuke UEDA
  • Patent number: 7913993
    Abstract: A sheet feeding device may include a sucking and conveying mechanism having a suction surface, which sucks sheets stacked on a sheet stacking table, from an upper surface of the sheets, sucks an uppermost sheet to be sucked on the suction surface, and conveys the uppermost sheet onto a sheet conveyance path; a floating air blowing mechanism which blows floating air against the sheets from a side surface of the stacked sheets; a sheet position detecting sensor which detects an upper surface height position of the sheets stacked, and detects a floating state of the sheets floated; and a controller which judges the floating state of the sheets detected in a floating state detecting period in connection with a blowing of the floating air, and controls an air volume of floating air blown from the floating air blowing mechanism based on the floating state of the sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Akira Kosugi, Daisuke Ueda