Patents by Inventor Chikara Manabe
Chikara Manabe 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: 20220055366Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an extraction unit configured to extract an image for position detection from job image data; a first image forming unit configured to form the image for position detection on a recording medium; a second image forming unit disposed on a downstream in a feeding direction of the recording medium relative to the first image forming unit; a first detection unit configured to detect the image for position detection formed by the first image forming unit; and a determining unit configured to determine a correction amount of an image forming position of the second image forming unit based on a position of the image for position detection that is detected by the detection unit and a position of the image for position detection in the image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2020Publication date: February 24, 2022Inventors: Chikara Manabe, Masato Matsuzuki, Yoshiyuki Taguchi, Kunio Miyakoshi, Maki Hasegawa, Masashi Hiratsuka
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Patent number: 11254122Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an extraction unit configured to extract an image for position detection from job image data; a first image forming unit configured to form the image for position detection on a recording medium; a second image forming unit disposed on a downstream in a feeding direction of the recording medium relative to the first image forming unit; a first detection unit configured to detect the image for position detection formed by the first image forming unit; and a determining unit configured to determine a correction amount of an image forming position of the second image forming unit based on a position of the image for position detection that is detected by the detection unit and a position of the image for position detection in the image data.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Chikara Manabe, Masato Matsuzuki, Yoshiyuki Taguchi, Kunio Miyakoshi, Maki Hasegawa, Masashi Hiratsuka
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Patent number: 11214057Abstract: An ejection apparatus includes: a first ejection unit configured to eject droplets on a recording medium conveyed in a conveyance direction to form an image for detection; a first detection unit disposed downstream of the first ejection unit and configured to detect the image for detection; a second ejection unit disposed downstream of the detection unit and configured to eject droplets on the recording medium; and a control unit configured to: predict a first elongation amount of the recording medium based on a first difference between a first set time period and a first detection time period from a reference time point to a first detection time point when the image for detection is detected by the first detection unit; and perform delay control on the second ejection unit for delaying an ejection timing of the second ejection unit based on the predicted elongation amount.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: FUIFIIM Business Imovation Corp.Inventors: Masato Matsuzuki, Yoshiyuki Taguchi, Chikara Manabe, Kunio Miyakoshi, Maki Hasegawa
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Patent number: 11186100Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to set an image position of a reference image in a transport direction of a recording medium to an arbitrary position on a specific page of the recording medium. The reference image is formed using a first color and serves as a reference for an image position of an image of a second color to be formed after the image of the first color is formed. The processor is also configured to adjust the image position for the second color on an adjacent page, located adjacently upstream of the specific page in the transport direction, by using image information of the reference image formed on the specific page.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Maki Hasegawa, Kunio Miyakoshi, Masato Matsuzuki, Yoshiyuki Taguchi, Chikara Manabe
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Patent number: 11173736Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, first and second detectors, and a corrector. The image forming unit includes first and second image forming units disposed downstream of the first unit in a transport direction of a recording medium and causes the first and second units to form predetermined correction images onto the recording medium. The first detector is disposed downstream of the first unit and upstream of the second unit in the transport direction, and detects the correction image formed by the first unit. The second detector is disposed downstream of the second unit in the transport direction and detects the correction image formed by the second unit. The corrector corrects an image position of the second unit in a width direction of the recording medium by using the correction images formed by the first and second units and detected by the first and second detectors.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Kunio Miyakoshi, Masato Matsuzuki, Yoshiyuki Taguchi, Maki Hasegawa, Chikara Manabe
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Publication number: 20210154996Abstract: An ejection apparatus includes: a first ejection unit configured to eject droplets on a recording medium conveyed in a conveyance direction to form an image for detection; a first detection unit disposed downstream of the first ejection unit and configured to detect the image for detection; a second ejection unit disposed downstream of the detection unit and configured to eject droplets on the recording medium; and a control unit configured to: predict a first elongation amount of the recording medium based on a first difference between a first set time period and a first detection time period from a reference time point to a first detection time point when the image for detection is detected by the first detection unit; and perform delay control on the second ejection unit for delaying an ejection timing of the second ejection unit based on the predicted elongation amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2020Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventors: Masato Matsuzuki, Yoshiyuki Taguchi, Chikara Manabe, Kunio Miyakoshi, Maki Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20210075916Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, first and second detectors, and a corrector. The image forming unit includes first and second image forming units disposed downstream of the first unit in a transport direction of a recording medium and causes the first and second units to form predetermined correction images onto the recording medium. The first detector is disposed downstream of the first unit and upstream of the second unit in the transport direction, and detects the correction image formed by the first unit. The second detector is disposed downstream of the second unit in the transport direction and detects the correction image formed by the second unit. The corrector corrects an image position of the second unit in a width direction of the recording medium by using the correction images formed by the first and second units and detected by the first and second detectors.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kunio MIYAKOSHI, Masato MATSUZUKI, Yoshiyuki TAGUCHI, Maki HASEGAWA, Chikara MANABE
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Publication number: 20210070070Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to set an image position of a reference image in a transport direction of a recording medium to an arbitrary position on a specific page of the recording medium. The reference image is formed using a first color and serves as a reference for an image position of an image of a second color to be formed after the image of the first color is formed. The processor is also configured to adjust the image position for the second color on an adjacent page, located adjacently upstream of the specific page in the transport direction, by using image information of the reference image formed on the specific page.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Maki HASEGAWA, Kunio MIYAKOSHI, Masato MATSUZUKI, Yoshiyuki TAGUCHI, Chikara MANABE
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Patent number: 10160238Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of droplets ejecting members that are opposed to a continuous sheet being conveyed, are arranged in a sheet conveying direction, and eject droplets onto the continuous sheet; movement restriction members that restrict movement, in a sheet width direction, of one end portion, in the sheet width direction, of a portion, opposed to the droplets ejecting members, of the continuous sheet; and tension application members that give tension in the sheet width direction to the portion, opposed to the droplets ejecting members, of the continuous sheet in a state that movement, in the sheet width direction, of the portion, opposed to the droplets ejecting members, of the continuous sheet is restricted by the movement restriction members.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2017Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Matsunaga, Chikara Manabe, Yuichi Inoue, Kazuyuki Hara, Masaki Kataoka
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Patent number: 10031394Abstract: There is provided an electrophoretic particle which contains a core material particle formed of a composition containing a resin, a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound having any one of an imino group, a methylol group and an alkoxymethyl group in the molecule and a heterocyclic ring having a nitrogen atom, and a coloring agent.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2012Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: E Ink CorporationInventors: Daisuke Nakayama, Yasuo Yamamoto, Naoki Hiji, Mieko Seki, Ryota Mizutani, Chikara Manabe, Cao Jun, Toshihide Aoshima
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Patent number: 9975352Abstract: An image forming device includes: a transporting route on which a recording medium is transported; an image forming unit that is provided on the transporting route and forms an image by discharging liquid droplets containing macromolecular particles on a front surface of the transported recording medium; a heating unit that heats the image formed on the front surface of the recording medium to a temperature higher than a glass transition point of the macromolecular particles; and a cooling unit that, before the image heated by the heating unit comes into contact with a member on the transporting route, cools the image formed on the front surface of the recording medium to a temperature equal to or lower than the glass transition point of the macromolecular particles in a non-contact state with the image.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2015Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chikara Manabe, Hiroyuki Ueki
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Publication number: 20180001679Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of droplets ejecting members that are opposed to a continuous sheet being conveyed, are arranged in a sheet conveying direction, and eject droplets onto the continuous sheet; movement restriction members that restrict movement, in a sheet width direction, of one end portion, in the sheet width direction, of a portion, opposed to the droplets ejecting members, of the continuous sheet; and tension application members that give tension in the sheet width direction to the portion, opposed to the droplets ejecting members, of the continuous sheet in a state that movement, in the sheet width direction, of the portion, opposed to the droplets ejecting members, of the continuous sheet is restricted by the movement restriction members.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Takeshi Matsunaga, Chikara Manabe, Yuichi Inoue, Kazuyuki Hara, Masaki Kataoka
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Publication number: 20160279989Abstract: An image forming device includes: a transporting route on which a recording medium is transported; an image forming unit that is provided on the transporting route and forms an image by discharging liquid droplets containing macromolecular particles on a front surface of the transported recording medium; a heating unit that heats the image formed on the front surface of the recording medium to a temperature higher than a glass transition point of the macromolecular particles; and a cooling unit that, before the image heated by the heating unit comes into contact with a member on the transporting route, cools the image formed on the front surface of the recording medium to a temperature equal to or lower than the glass transition point of the macromolecular particles in a non-contact state with the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2015Publication date: September 29, 2016Inventors: Chikara Manabe, Hiroyuki Ueki
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Patent number: 9348193Abstract: There is provided a dispersion liquid for electrophoretic display, containing a dispersion medium 50, a colored electrophoretic particle group 34 that is dispersed in the dispersion medium and migrates in the dispersion medium according to an electric field, a non-electrophoretic particle group 36 that is dispersed without migrating in the dispersion medium and has a color different from that of the electrophoretic particle group, and a compound having a neutral polar group and a hydrophobic group, which is contained in the dispersion medium in a ratio of about 0.01 to about 1 mass % based on the entire dispersion liquid.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2012Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: E INK CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Hiji, Ryota Mizutani, Chikara Manabe, Cao Jun, Toshihide Aoshima, Daisuke Nakayama, Yasuo Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9152005Abstract: A particle dispersion for display includes color particles for display that move in response to an electric field and include first color particles and second color particles; and a dispersion medium that disperses the color particles for display, in which the second color particles have a larger particle diameter than a particle diameter of the first color particles and the same charging characteristic as a charging characteristic of the first color particles, and in the color particles for display, a ratio (Cs/Cl) of a charge amount Cs of the first color particles per unit area of display to a charge amount Cl of the second color particles per unit area of display is less than or equal to 5.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2013Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Morikawa, Naoki Hiji, Yasuo Yamamoto, Daisuke Nakayama, Mieko Seki, Hiroaki Moriyama, Ryota Mizutani, Masaaki Abe, Nami Tokunaga, Chikara Manabe, Jun Cao
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Publication number: 20140225058Abstract: To provide a rectifying device equipped with a carrier transporter excellent in high frequency responsiveness and heat resistance, an electronic circuit using the same, and a method of manufacturing the rectifying device. The rectifying device includes a pair of electrodes, and a carrier transporter arranged between the pair of electrodes and composed of one or multiple carbon nanotubes. In order that a first interface between one electrode of the pair of electrodes and the carrier transporter and a second interface between the other electrode of the pair of electrodes and the carrier transporter may have different barrier levels, connection configuration of them are made different.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinsuke OKADA, Masaki HIRAKATA, Chikara MANABE, Kazunori ANAZAWA, Taishi SHIGEMATSU, Miho WATANABE, Kentaro KISHI, Takashi ISOZAKI, Shigeki OOMA, Hiroyuki WATANABE
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Publication number: 20140104675Abstract: A particle dispersion for display includes color particles for display that move in response to an electric field and include first color particles and second color particles; and a dispersion medium that disperses the color particles for display, in which the second color particles have a larger particle diameter than a particle diameter of the first color particles and the same charging characteristic as a charging characteristic of the first color particles, and in the color particles for display, a ratio (Cs/Cl) of a charge amount Cs of the first color particles per unit area of display to a charge amount Cl of the second color particles per unit area of display is less than or equal to 5.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Morikawa, Naoki Hiji, Yasuo Yamamoto, Daisuke Nakayama, Mieko Seki, Hiroaki Moriyama, Ryota Mizutani, Masaaki Abe, Nami Tokunaga, Chikara Manabe, Jun Cao
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Patent number: 8488074Abstract: A display medium comprises: a pair of electrodes to which a voltage is applied; and a liquid crystal layer stack provided between the pair of electrodes. The liquid crystal layer stack contains a first liquid crystal layer having a first liquid crystal that undergoes transition into a specific alignment state in response to the voltage applied to the electrodes becoming equal to or greater than a first voltage value, and a second liquid crystal layer having a second liquid crystal that undergoes transition into the specific alignment state in response to the voltage becoming equal to or greater than a second voltage value. The second voltage value is greater than the first voltage value, and the second liquid crystal has a higher isotropic phase transition temperature than the first liquid crystal.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2010Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Hiji, Chikara Manabe, Takeo Kakinuma, Tadayoshi Ozaki
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Patent number: 8344244Abstract: A solar cell includes a p-type semiconductor substance, and an n-type semiconductor substance. The p-type semiconductor substance and the n-type semiconductor substance form a pn junction or a pin junction, and the p-type semiconductor substance or the n-type semiconductor substance includes a structure film having a plurality of carbon nanotubes electrically connected to each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2011Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kei Shimotani, Chikara Manabe, Takashi Morikawa
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Patent number: 8248574Abstract: A liquid crystal display element includes a first substrate having a first electrode on one surface thereof, a transparent second substrate having a transparent second electrode on one surface thereof, a first liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal composition, a color filter, and a second liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal composition, and at least one of the first and second liquid crystal layers includes an additive having dielectric properties, and the dielectric constant of the first liquid crystal layer is different from that of the second liquid crystal layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeo Kakinuma, Tadayoshi Ozaki, Chikara Manabe, Naoki Hiji