Patents by Inventor Akito SHIMOMURA

Akito SHIMOMURA 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).

  • Publication number: 20240017752
    Abstract: A transport vehicle system includes a transport vehicle to travel along a track, a controller to control the transport vehicle, and a power supply provided at each of a plurality of sections of the track. Each of the power supplies includes a sensor to monitor a state of the power supply and a communicator to transmit the monitoring result by the monitor to the controller. The controller is configured or programmed to control the transport vehicle in accordance with the monitoring result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Akito SHIMOMURA, Toru HAMAGUCHI, Naoki MANABE, Hiroaki IZUMI
  • Patent number: 10744765
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid droplet ejection head and a liquid droplet ejection apparatus in which viscosity resistance of a liquid to be ejected is reduced on an ejection side of a nozzle to prevent pointed-end ejection and to improve accuracy of an ejection angle. This object is achieved by the following. That is, a channel 28 having a volume to be changed by a pressure generation element and a nozzle 23 communicating with the channel 28 are included. The inside of the nozzle 23 has a conical portion 23a with a diameter becoming gradually smaller toward an outside, and a cylindrical portion 23b continuous with the conical portion 23a and communicating with the outside. A connecting part of the conical portion 23a to the cylindrical portion 23b has the same opening cross-sectional shape as a connecting part of the cylindrical portion 23b to the conical portion 23a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Akito Shimomura, Kusunoki Higashino
  • Publication number: 20190255846
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid droplet ejection head and a liquid droplet ejection apparatus in which viscosity resistance of a liquid to be ejected is reduced on an ejection side of a nozzle to prevent pointed-end ejection and to improve accuracy of an ejection angle. This object is achieved by the following. That is, a channel 28 having a volume to be changed by a pressure generation element and a nozzle 23 communicating with the channel 28 are included. The inside of the nozzle 23 has a conical portion 23a with a diameter becoming gradually smaller toward an outside, and a cylindrical portion 23b continuous with the conical portion 23a and communicating with the outside. A connecting part of the conical portion 23a to the cylindrical portion 23b has the same opening cross-sectional shape as a connecting part of the cylindrical portion 23b to the conical portion 23a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Akito SHIMOMURA, Kusunoki HIGASHINO