Patents by Inventor Daisuke Abe

Daisuke Abe 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: 12249347
    Abstract: A clamp member is a disk-shaped member configured to fix a recording disk to a rotating part of a spindle motor. The clamp member includes a clamp lower surface, a plurality of first through holes, and a plurality of second through holes. The clamp lower surface is provided in an outer edge region of the clamp member, contacts an upper surface of the recording disk, and applies a downward force to the upper surface. The first through holes are provided at a first interval in the circumferential direction in a first region at an inner side in the radial direction from the outer edge region, and fastening members to be fastened to the rotating part are inserted into the first through holes. The second through holes are provided at a second interval in the circumferential direction in a second region at the inner side in the radial direction from the first region, and the fastening members are inserted into the second through holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventors: Fumiyasu Higuchi, Shigeya Abe, Daisuke Ito
  • Publication number: 20250065788
    Abstract: The conveyance seat includes a back frame and a belt retractor that is attached to the back frame, and that retracts a seat belt. The back frame includes a rear frame having a plate shape and a front frame that is assembled to a front surface of the rear frame. A first through-hole is formed in the rear frame, and a second through-hole is formed in the front frame at a position facing the first through-hole. The belt retractor is provided inside the first through-hole and the second through-hole, and is disposed at a position overlapping the rear frame and the front frame in a thickness direction of the back frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Takeshi SATO, Kazuya MIYAWAKI, Hidetaka YONEHARA, Daichi MOCHIZUKI, Hirohisa ABE, Yushiro TACHIBANA, Yasunobu KAWAMOTO, Daisuke OHKAWA, Yusuke OGATA
  • Patent number: 12228866
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main body having a first metal terminal, a plurality of toner cartridges to store toner and including a housing storing the toner, a supporting member provided at one end, and a memory medium including a chip for recording information about the toner cartridge and an electrical contact and being supported by the supporting member, and a tray movable between a housed position and a drawn-out position. The tray includes a frame which can mount the plurality of toner cartridges, a plurality of tray-side electrical contacts provided at the frame and able to contact the electrical contact of the memory medium of the plurality of toner cartridges respectively, and a second metal terminal electrically connected to the plurality of tray-side electrical contacts and able to contact the first metal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu Fukasawa, Yukio Kubo, Daisuke Abe, Mitsuhiro Sato, Masahiro Suetsugu, Kengo Sakai
  • Patent number: 12228479
    Abstract: A gas collection device is installed in a toilet including a toilet seat and a toilet bowl. The gas collection device includes a flow path connected to a predetermined tank, and an introduction portion that introduces a sample gas into the flow path. The introduction portion is located between the toilet seat and the toilet bowl, or located inside or above the toilet seat. The introduction portion does not protrude toward an inside of the toilet bowl from a rim portion of the toilet bowl when located between the toilet seat and the rim portion. The introduction portion does not protrude toward the inside of the toilet bowl from the toilet seat when located inside or above the toilet seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Abe, Daisuke Ueyama, Etsuro Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20250053119
    Abstract: A process cartridge includes a photosensitive member unit with a photosensitive drum, a developing unit detachably mounted on the photosensitive member, and a toner cartridge detachably mounted on the developing unit. The toner cartridge has a holder including a protruding portion on an end side thereof, and the developing unit is provided with a rotatable lift member on an end side thereof. In a mounted state in which the toner cartridge is mounted on the developing unit, the toner cartridge is maintained in the mounted state by engaging of a first portion of the lift member with the protruding portion, and the toner cartridge is transited from the mounted state to a lifted state in which the toner cartridge is rotated upward by contacting of a second portion of the lift member to the protruding portion with rotation of the lift member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Naoya Asanuma, Daisuke Abe, Yu Fukasawa, Kazutaka Sueshige
  • Patent number: 12221730
    Abstract: An editing apparatus displays an editing screen for editing data for a medium to be processed by processing equipment including a printer, a cutting machine, and a sewing machine on a display. The data includes print data to drive the printer, cutting data to drive the cutting machine, and sewing data to drive the sewing machine. The editing apparatus receives an operation for editing the data with the editing screen or the preview screen displayed on the display, edits the data in accordance with the operation received, and outputs the data edited to the printer, the cutting machine, and the sewing machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomotaka Katano, Daisuke Abe, Yuta Kamihira, Sayaka Kurihara, Kazuki Shibata
  • Publication number: 20250043559
    Abstract: A flush toilet includes a reservoir tank, a bowl, a rim spout port, a discharge trap conduit, a jet spout port configured to spout flush water toward an inlet of the discharge trap conduit, a jet water conduit configured to supply the flush water from the reservoir tank to the jet spout port, and a discharge device configured to supply or stop supplying the flush water to the jet water conduit, wherein the flush water is spouted at a first flow rate from the jet spout port when the discharge device is driven and the flush water in the reservoir tank flows into the jet water conduit and, after spouting of the first flow rate ends, the flush water is spouted at a second flow rate from the jet spout port due to the flush water retained in the jet water conduit flowing toward the jet spout port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Kenichi NAKAMURA, Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Shinichi URATA, Takumi TSUCHITANI, Chisato SONE, Jing CHEN, Wataru ISHIMI, Naoki ABE, Daisuke YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 12209982
    Abstract: A gas detection system includes a sensor unit that outputs a voltage corresponding to a concentration of a specific gas, a supply unit, and a control unit. The supply unit is capable of supplying a sample gas and a purge gas to the sensor unit. The control unit controls the supply unit to alternately supply the sample gas and the purge gas to the sensor unit. The control unit acquires a voltage waveform output by the sensor unit and detects a type and concentration of a gas contained in the sample gas, using a multiple regression analysis using characteristics of the voltage waveform as explanatory variables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Abe, Daisuke Ueyama, Etsuro Shimizu
  • Patent number: 12207397
    Abstract: Provided is a stretchable circuit board including a stretchable insulating layer, and a wiring, in which the wiring is formed of a combination of a metal wiring portion that forms a main portion of the wiring, and a conductive stretchable portion disposed ancillary to the metal wiring portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Fukao, Tomoaki Sawada, Takatoshi Abe, Kyosuke Michigami, Makoto Takashiro, Susumu Fukushima, Daisuke Honda
  • Patent number: 12204263
    Abstract: A process cartridge includes a photosensitive member unit with a photosensitive drum, a developing unit detachably mounted on the photosensitive member, and a toner cartridge detachably mounted on the developing unit. The toner cartridge has a holder including a protruding portion on an end side thereof, and the developing unit is provided with a rotatable lift member on an end side thereof. In a mounted state in which the toner cartridge is mounted on the developing unit, the toner cartridge is maintained in the mounted state by engaging of a first portion of the lift member with the protruding portion, and the toner cartridge is transited from the mounted state to a lifted state in which the toner cartridge is rotated upward by contacting of a second portion of the lift member to the protruding portion with rotation of the lift member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoya Asanuma, Daisuke Abe, Yu Fukasawa, Kazutaka Sueshige
  • Publication number: 20250013192
    Abstract: A cartridge includes a first unit including a photosensitive member and a first frame; a second unit including a developing member and a second frame; a holding portion movable between a first position for holding the second unit at the separated position and a second position for holding the second unit at the developing position; a movable member; and an urging portion. the movable member is movable to a contact force receiving position, a separating force receiving position separating force receiving portion, a first retracted position, and a second retracted position. The urging portion urges the movable member placed at the first retracted position in a direction of moving the movable member toward the contact force receiving position, and urges the movable member placed at the second retracted position in a direction of moving the movable member toward the separating force receiving position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: ISAO KOISHI, SHINJIRO TOBA, TAKEO KAWANAMI, SHINICHI NISHIDA, YUICHI FUKUI, YASUYUKI EGAMI, TOSHIKI FUJINO, AKINOBU HIRAYAMA, TERUHIKO SASAKI, TACHIO KAWAI, DAISUKE ABE
  • Publication number: 20240419124
    Abstract: A cartridge includes a holding portion movable, by movement of a developing member in an axial direction of the developing member, between a first position for stably holding a second unit at a spaced position and a second position for stably holding a second unit at a developing position. The cartridge also includes an urging portion for urging the holding portion in a direction from the second position toward the first position in the axial direction of the developing member. At least one of the first gear portion and the second gear portion is a helical gear. When the second gear portion is driven and rotated by the first gear portion, the holding portion is moved from the first position to the second position by the second gear portion receiving a force from the first gear portion. When the second gear portion is not driven by the first gear portion, the holding portion is moved from the second position toward the first position by an urging force of the urging portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: SOICHI ISHII, TOSHIYA GOTO, YOSUKE KASHIIDE, SHINJIRO TOBA, TAKEO KAWANAMI, SHINICHI NISHIDA, YUICHI FUKUI, YASUYUKI EGAMI, TOSHIKI FUJINO, AKINOBU HIRAYAMA, TERUHIKO SASAKI, TACHIO KAWAI, DAISUKE ABE
  • Patent number: 12169376
    Abstract: A toner cartridge includes a casing accommodating toner and provided with a toner discharge opening, a fan, a closing member capable of shifting between a closed position and an open position for opening a passage. The toner cartridge also includes a drive receiving member for receiving a driving force from outside of the toner cartridge and for transmitting the driving force toward the fan and the closing member by rotation thereof. The closing member periodically moves between the closed position and the open position by receiving the driving force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akinobu Hirayama, Toshiki Fujino, Teruhiko Sasaki, Tachio Kawai, Daisuke Abe
  • Publication number: 20240411266
    Abstract: A process cartridge includes a first unit including an image bearing member configured to carry an electrostatic latent image, and a second unit including a developer bearing member configured to develop the electrostatic latent image carried on the image bearing member into a toner image, the second unit being capable of being mounted on the first unit in a mounting direction. The first unit includes a moving member that moves the second unit mounted on the first unit at a mounting position to a detachment position. The second unit includes a storage unit that stores information about the second unit. The moving member is disposed on a first side of the process cartridge in a longitudinal direction of the image bearing member. An electrode of the storage unit is disposed on a second side of the process cartridge in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Noriyuki Komatsu, Masaki Ojima, Tomonori Mori, Daisuke Abe, Tadayuki Tsuda
  • Publication number: 20240401256
    Abstract: A sewing system includes a sewing machine and a terminal apparatus. The sewing machine includes a needle bar, a communication interface, and a controller. The communication interface is configured to communicate with the terminal apparatus. The controller is configured to perform: receiving sewing data transmitted from the terminal apparatus via the communication interface, the sewing data including needle position data indicating needle positions for sewing an embroidery pattern; performing a sewing control operation of driving the needle bar to sew the embroidery pattern based on the sewing data; and in response to determining that the sewing machine has stopped during execution of the sewing control operation and has restarted and in response to receiving restoration data corresponding to the sewing data from the terminal apparatus via the communication interface, driving the needle bar to resume the sewing control operation based on the restoration data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke ABE, Sayaka KURIHARA
  • Patent number: 12158722
    Abstract: A cartridge includes a drum unit and a development unit. The drum unit includes a photosensitive drum, a frame, a transfer roller, and a cleaning member. The development unit includes a development roller, and a memory. The cleaning member is configured to come into contact with the photosensitive drum at a region between a development nip portion and a transfer nip portion in a circumferential direction of the photosensitive drum and at an end portion of the photosensitive drum in a direction of the rotational axis. The frame has an exposing hole through which the memory is exposed from the frame, and a recessed portion that is adjacent to the exposing hole in the direction of the rotational axis, and stores foreign matters removed from the photosensitive drum by the cleaning member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noriyuki Komatsu, Masaki Ojima, Daisuke Abe, Tomonori Mori, Tadayuki Tsuda, Tetsuya Numata, Naoya Asanuma
  • Publication number: 20240385570
    Abstract: A cartridge includes a drum unit and a development unit. The drum unit includes a photosensitive drum, a frame, a transfer roller, and a cleaning member. The development unit includes a development roller, and a memory. The cleaning member is configured to come into contact with the photosensitive drum at a region between a development nip portion and a transfer nip portion in a circumferential direction of the photosensitive drum and at an end portion of the photosensitive drum in a direction of the rotational axis. The frame has an exposing hole through which the memory is exposed from the frame, and a recessed portion that is adjacent to the exposing hole in the direction of the rotational axis, and stores foreign matters removed from the photosensitive drum by the cleaning member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: NORIYUKI KOMATSU, MASAKI OJIMA, DAISUKE ABE, TOMONORI MORI, TADAYUKI TSUDA, TETSUYA NUMATA, NAOYA ASANUMA
  • Publication number: 20240377772
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a main body; a developing cartridge having a housing, a memory medium, a memory medium unit, a developer carrier, and a protrusion portion in the longitudinal direction of the developer carrier; and a tray having a frame, an image bearing member, a guide member provided at one end in the longitudinal direction, an electric contact portion with the memory medium, and a memory unit support portion. The guide member includes a portion which functions as a memory unit support portion, and a downstream portion located downstream of the memory unit support portion in the mounting direction of the developing cartridge. The memory unit support portion guides the protrusion portion to the downstream portion when the developing cartridge is mounted on the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Yu Fukasawa, Yukio Kubo, Daisuke Abe, Mitsuhiro Sato, Masahiro Suetsugu, Kengo Sakai
  • Patent number: 12130582
    Abstract: To provide a process cartridge, a drum unit capable of receiving a driving force from the main assembly, and an image forming apparatus including the process cartridge. A cartridge is provided with a movable member having a driving force receiving portion. The movable member moves between an advanced position and a retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Daisuke Abe
  • Publication number: 20240329595
    Abstract: A cartridge includes a gear member including a gear portion on an outer peripheral surface of the gear member, a rotational axis, and at least one engaging recess, the gear member being operatively connected to a rotatable member, and a coupling member provided with (i) at least one protrusion that is capable of receiving a driving force and (ii) at least one engaging projection that is engageable with the at least one engaging recess of the gear member. The coupling member is movable relative to the gear member in the direction of the rotational axis of the gear member between a first position and a second position. The gear member is not engageable with the engaging projection of the coupling member when the coupling member is in the second position, and the engaging recess of the gear member is engageable with the engaging projection of the coupling member and the gear member receives a driving force from the coupling member when the coupling member is in the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventor: Daisuke Abe