Patents by Inventor Atsushi Kuriyama
Atsushi Kuriyama 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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Publication number: 20240117984Abstract: Provided is an air conditioner including an indoor unit provided with a microphone element for receiving voice instructions, such that a voice instruction spoken by an operator is acquired with high quality and control based on the voice instruction spoken by the operator is likely to be ensured. The air conditioner includes an indoor unit, a transmission unit, and a reception unit. The indoor unit has a main body and a microphone element. The main body has formed therein a blow-out port through which air-conditioned air is blown out toward a space to be air-conditioned. The microphone element accepts a voice instruction captured from a voice capturing portion arranged at a position that deviates from a ventilation space through which the air blown out from the blow-out port flows, in such a manner as to face the space to be air-conditioned. The transmission unit transmits the voice instruction accepted by the microphone element to an outside as a signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Kousuke TSUBOI, Takao SONODA, Makoto IKEDA, Tetsushi TSUDA, Yu OTA, Yuuichi KITA, Kenji AMANO, Atsushi MATSUBARA, Tomomi KUKITA, Naoko KURIYAMA, Tomoyoshi ASHIKAGA, Gen KUMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240034580Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a first guide plate and a second guide plate facing with a given space in a thickness direction and having second and third openings, a sheet conveyance passage between the first and second guide plates, and a sheet conveyor including a drive source, a drive roller, a first driven roller, and a second driven roller. The drive roller protrudes from the first guide plate toward the sheet conveyance passage through the first opening. The first driven roller faces the drive roller and protrudes from the second guide plate toward the sheet conveyance passage through the second opening. The second driven roller protrudes from the second guide plate toward the sheet conveyance passage through the third opening. The second driven roller is disposed at a position shifted from the drive roller in a width direction orthogonal to the sheet conveyance direction and the thickness direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke Tanaka, Kentaroh Fukami, Shigeyuki Itoh, Atsushi Kuriyama, Yuuki Nakagawa, Yiru Chen, Ken Sawada, Takuya Fukuhara, Ryoh Suzuki, Yasuo Ohba, Akikazu Iwata
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Publication number: 20230348223Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a sheet conveyance passage, a sheet circulation passage, a first conveyor, a second conveyor, a third conveyor, and circuitry. In the sheet circulation passage, a sheet is circulated to be overlaid with a following sheet in the sheet conveyance passage. The circuitry circulates the sheet in the sheet circulation passage to overlay the sheet with the following sheet conveyed after the sheet in the first sheet conveyance passage, at an upstream position of the first sheet conveyance passage, and adjusts a sheet conveyance speed of the third conveyor to circulate the sheet, based on a reduction amount that is obtained when a preceding amount of a leading end of the following sheet with respect to a leading end of the sheet is reduced while the following sheet is temporarily stopped due to a temporary stop of the first conveyor.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Takuya Fukuhara, Ken Sawada, Ryoh Suzuki, Kentaroh Fukami, Atsushi Kuriyama, Yusuke Tanaka, Yuuki Nakagawa, Yasuo Ohba, Akikazu Iwata
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Publication number: 20230242371Abstract: A post-processing device (200) includes a circulation conveyance path, a zeroth conveyer (R0), and a controller (50). The circulation conveyance path includes a first conveyance path (W1), a second conveyance path (W2), a third conveyance path (W3), a first conveyer (R1), a second conveyer (R2), and a third conveyer (R3). The first and second conveyers convey a preceding sheet (P1) along the first and second conveyance paths. The third conveyer conveys it from the third conveyance path to the first conveyance path. The zeroth conveyer conveys a following sheet (P2) toward the first conveyer. The controller controls the third conveyer to stop the preceding sheet, subsequently controls the zeroth conveyer and the third conveyer to overlay the preceding sheet with the following sheet to form a sheet bundle (Q) having a shift amount (G) between a leading edges of the preceding sheet and the following sheet and strike the leading edges of the preceding sheet and the following sheet against the first conveyer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2021Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi KURIYAMA, Yuuki NAKAGAWA, Takeshi HIRABAYASHI, Takato MOCHIZUKI, Ryoh SUZUKI, Kentaroh FUKAMI, Yusuke TANAKA, Takaya FUKUHARA
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Publication number: 20230024014Abstract: A post-processing apparatus includes a first conveyor, a second conveyor, a third conveyor, and a conveyance passage corrector. The first conveyor conveys a sheet conveyed along a first conveyance passage downstream from the first conveyor. The second conveyor conveys the sheet along a second conveyance passage. The third conveyor conveys the sheet along a third conveyance passage. The conveyance passage corrector includes a retracting mechanism to retract from a joining position at which the third conveyance passage joins to the first conveyance passage and turns a conveyance direction of the sheet toward the first conveyor when the sheet enters from the third conveyance passage to the first conveyance passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Takato MOCHIZUKI, Kentaroh FUKAMI, Yuuki NAKAGAWA, Atsushi KURIYAMA, Yusuke TANAKA, Akikazu IWATA, Yasuo OHBA, Hiroki YOSHIDA, Takuya FUKUHARA, Ryoh SUZUKI
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Patent number: 11511961Abstract: A sheet processing device includes a first conveyance passage, a first conveyor, a second conveyor, a folder, a second conveyance passage, and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to (1) cause the first conveyor and the second conveyor to convey the sheet nipping the sheet to warp the sheet between the first conveyor and the second conveyor, (2) guide the warped sheet to form a first fold on the sheet by the folder and circulate the sheet to the first conveyance passage, (3) cause the first conveyor and the second conveyor to convey the sheet while nipping the sheet again to warp the sheet between the first conveyor and the second conveyor, (4) guide the warped sheet to form a second fold on the sheet by the folder, and (5) cause the second conveyor to convey the sheet with the first fold and the second fold.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke Tanaka, Kentaroh Fukami, Atsushi Kuriyama, Yuuki Nakagawa, Takato Mochizuki, Toshihisa Hioki, Takuya Fukuhara, Ryoh Suzuki
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Publication number: 20220063953Abstract: A sheet processing device includes a first conveyance passage, a first conveyor, a second conveyor, a folder, a second conveyance passage, and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to (1) cause the first conveyor and the second conveyor to convey the sheet nipping the sheet to warp the sheet between the first conveyor and the second conveyor, (2) guide the warped sheet to form a first fold on the sheet by the folder and circulate the sheet to the first conveyance passage, (3) cause the first conveyor and the second conveyor to convey the sheet while nipping the sheet again to warp the sheet between the first conveyor and the second conveyor, (4) guide the warped sheet to form a second fold on the sheet by the folder, and (5) cause the second conveyor to convey the sheet with the first fold and the second fold.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke TANAKA, Kentaroh FUKAMI, Atsushi KURIYAMA, Yuuki NAKAGAWA, Takato MOCHIZUKI, Toshihisa HIOKI, Takuya FUKUHARA, Ryoh SUZUKI
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Patent number: 9283797Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes: a sheet conveying unit that conveys a sheet; a sheet stacking member on a placing surface of which the sheet conveyed by the sheet conveying unit is stacked; an edge aligning unit that aligns edges of sheets in a sheet conveying direction on the sheet stacking member; a first binding unit that binds the sheets aligned by the edge aligning unit using a binding member; and a second binding unit that binds the sheets aligned by the edge aligning unit without using a binding member. The sheet processing apparatus selects either of the first binding unit and the second binding unit and performs binding processing on the sheets. The first binding unit and the second binding unit are integrally constructed.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2014Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Yusuke Tanaka, Atsushi Kuriyama, Makoto Seki, Yuta Kiyao
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Patent number: 9102116Abstract: In a sheet creaser, a sheet set is pushed between a pair of folding rollers to fold the sheet set. Then, a re-pressing roller re-presses the sheet set, which has been folded by the folding rollers, by rolling along the crease. Pressure applied on the sheet set by the folding rollers is released when the re-pressing roller re-presses the sheet set.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2009Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventors: Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Masahiro Tamura, Shuuya Nagasako, Naohiro Kikkawa, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomohiro Furuhashi, Makoto Hidaka, Hitoshi Hattori, Junichi Tokita, Takashi Saito, Akira Kunieda, Hiroshi Maeda, Ichiro Ichihashi, Atsushi Kuriyama
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Publication number: 20150037119Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes: a sheet conveying unit that conveys a sheet; a sheet stacking member on a placing surface of which the sheet conveyed by the sheet conveying unit is stacked; an edge aligning unit that aligns edges of sheets in a sheet conveying direction on the sheet stacking member; a first binding unit that binds the sheets aligned by the edge aligning unit using a binding member; and a second binding unit that binds the sheets aligned by the edge aligning unit without using a binding member. The sheet processing apparatus selects either of the first binding unit and the second binding unit and performs binding processing on the sheets. The first binding unit and the second binding unit are integrally constructed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Yusuke TANAKA, Atsushi KURIYAMA, Makoto SEKI, Yuta KIYAO
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Patent number: 8162305Abstract: A sheet processing system includes a sheet processing device that includes a post-processing unit that performs a predetermined post-processing on a sheet member and a sheet supplying device that supplies the sheet member to the sheet processing device. The post-processing unit has two waiting positions including a first position that is a normal waiting position and a second position that is a position filling items to be used in the post-processing in the post-processing unit. When the post-processing unit moves from the second position to a post-processing position to perform the post-processing in response to a post-processing request, the sheet supplying device sets a supply time for supplying the sheet member to the sheet processing device longer than a time that is required for the sheet processing device to move from the first position to the post-processing position by a predetermined time.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2010Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventors: Hitoshi Hattori, Masahiro Tamura, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomohiro Furuhashi, Hiroshi Maeda, Atsushi Kuriyama, Akira Kunieda, Ichiro Ichihashi, Takashi Saito, Junichi Tokita, Naoyuki Ishikawa
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Patent number: 8162306Abstract: A sheet aligning apparatus includes an alignment surface formed in a planar shape and that presses an end of a sheet to move and align the sheet; and a holding unit that holds the end of the sheet at a position contacting the alignment surface in a state that a curled end of the sheet contacts the alignment surface and the sheet is thus pressed.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2009Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventors: Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Masahiro Tamura, Shuuya Nagasako, Naohiro Kikkawa, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomohiro Furuhashi, Hitoshi Hattori, Junichi Tokita, Takashi Saito, Akira Kunieda, Ichiro Ichihashi, Atsushi Kuriyama, Hiroshi Maeda
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Patent number: 8002274Abstract: A sheet stacking unit that stacks sheets thereon is movable up and down. A lifting unit moves the sheet stacking unit up and down. A driving unit drives the lifting unit. A control unit controls a driving speed of the driving unit. A position detecting unit detects a position of the sheet stacking unit in an up-and-down direction. The control unit controls the driving speed according to the position of the sheet stacking unit detected by the position detecting unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2009Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventors: Takashi Saito, Masahiro Tamura, Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Shuuya Nagasako, Naohiro Kikkawa, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomohiro Furuhashi, Hitoshi Hattori, Junichi Tokita, Akira Kunieda, Ichiro Ichihashi, Hiroshi Maeda, Atsushi Kuriyama
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Patent number: 7950641Abstract: In a sheet creaser, when a sheet is conveyed to a folding unit by a conveyer unit, the folding unit folds the sheet and a pressing unit presses the folded sheet by sliding in a direction substantially perpendicular to a sheet conveying direction. A switching unit switches the conveyer unit between a first position to convey the sheet and a second position unable to convey the sheet. A driving unit drives both the switching unit and the pressing unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2008Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventors: Naohiro Kikkawa, Masahiro Tamura, Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Shuuya Nagasako, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomohiro Furuhashi, Makoto Hidaka, Hitoshi Hattori, Takashi Saito, Junichi Tokita, Akira Kunieda, Atsushi Kuriyama, Hiroshi Maeda, Ichiro Ichihashi
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Patent number: 7905473Abstract: A pressing unit includes a pressure roller that slides on the folded side while rotating, an elastic biasing unit that presses the pressure roller in a thickness direction of the stack of sheets, and a driving unit that slides the pressure roller in a direction substantially perpendicular to a conveying direction of the stack of sheets. A lifting unit, when the pressure roller slides to a first position, temporarily lifts up the pressure roller, and when lifted-up pressure roller slides to a second position, lifts the lifted-up pressure roller down onto the folded side.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2009Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventors: Masahiro Tamura, Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Shuuya Nagasako, Naohiro Kikkawa, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomohiro Furuhashi, Makoto Hidaka, Junichi Tokita, Takashi Saito, Hitoshi Hattori, Akira Kunieda, Hiroshi Maeda, Ichiro Ichihashi, Atsushi Kuriyama
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Patent number: 7802789Abstract: A sheet conveying device includes a conveying unit that conveys a sheet in a sheet conveying direction; a measuring unit that measures a position of a side edge of the sheet in a measurement area; a shielding unit having an end portion that is projected into the measurement area for shielding the sheet; a first determining unit that determines whether the shielding unit is detectable in the measurement area; and a second determining unit that determines whether the measuring unit has been mounted in the sheet conveying device based on a result obtained in the first determining unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2009Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Ricoh Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Tokita, Masahiro Tamura, Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Makoto Hidaka, Takashi Saito, Hitoshi Hattori, Shuuya Nagasako, Naohiro Kikkawa, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomohiro Furuhashi, Akira Kunieda, Hiroshi Maeda, Ichiro Ichihashi, Atsushi Kuriyama
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Patent number: 7798950Abstract: A folding unit folds a sheet. A pressing unit presses a folded side of the folded sheet. A driving unit causes the pressing unit to slide in a direction perpendicular to a sheet conveying direction. A control unit independently sets number of slides at which the pressing unit is to slide on each of a plurality of sections of the folded side depending on a distance of each of the sections from a reference position, and controls the driving unit so as to slide in each of the sections for the number of slides set for that section.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2008Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventors: Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Masahiro Tamura, Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Shuuya Nagasako, Naohiro Kikkawa, Tomohiro Furuhashi, Hiroshi Maeda, Atsushi Kuriyama, Makoto Hidaka, Hitoshi Hattori, Junichi Tokita, Akira Kunieda, Takashi Saito, Ichiro Ichihashi
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Publication number: 20100207314Abstract: A sheet processing system includes a sheet processing device that includes a post-processing unit that performs a predetermined post-processing on a sheet member and a sheet supplying device that supplies the sheet member to the sheet processing device. The post-processing unit has two waiting positions including a first position that is a normal waiting position and a second position that is a position filling items to be used in the post-processing in the post-processing unit. When the post-processing unit moves from the second position to a post-processing position to perform the post-processing in response to a post-processing request, the sheet supplying device sets a supply time for supplying the sheet member to the sheet processing device longer than a time that is required for the sheet processing device to move from the first position to the post-processing position by a predetermined time.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2010Publication date: August 19, 2010Inventors: Hitoshi Hattori, Masahiro Tamura, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomohiro Furuhashi, Hiroshi Maeda, Atsushi Kuriyama, Akira Kunieda, Ichiro Ichihashi, Takashi Saito, Junichi Tokita, Naoyuki Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20100148417Abstract: A sheet aligning apparatus includes an alignment surface formed in a planar shape and that presses an end of a sheet to move and align the sheet; and a holding unit that holds the end of the sheet at a position contacting the alignment surface in a state that a curled end of the sheet contacts the alignment surface and the sheet is thus pressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2009Publication date: June 17, 2010Inventors: Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Masahiro Tamura, Shuuya Nagasako, Naohiro Kikkawa, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomohiro Furuhashi, Hitoshi Hattori, Junichi Tokita, Takashi Saito, Akira Kunieda, Ichiro Ichihashi, Atsushi Kuriyama, Hiroshi Maeda
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Publication number: 20090283961Abstract: A sheet stacking unit that stacks sheets thereon is movable up and down. A lifting unit moves the sheet stacking unit up and down. A driving unit drives the lifting unit. A control unit controls a driving speed of the driving unit. A position detecting unit detects a position of the sheet stacking unit in an up-and-down direction. The control unit controls the driving speed according to the position of the sheet stacking unit detected by the position detecting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2009Publication date: November 19, 2009Inventors: Takashi SAITO, Masahiro TAMURA, Nobuyoshi SUZUKI, Shuuya NAGASAKO, Naohiro KIKKAWA, Kazuhiro KOBAYASHI, Tomohiro FURUHASHI, Hitoshi HATTORI, Junichi TOKITA, Akira KUNIEDA, Ichiro ICHIHASHI, Hiroshi MAEDA, Atsushi KURIYAMA