Patents by Inventor Fumihide Kimura

Fumihide Kimura 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).

  • Printing device, printing method, sheet-fed printing press, and rotary printing press
    Patent number: 8870361
    Abstract: A printing device includes a rotatable printing cylinder, a blanket cylinder configured to make a synchronous rotation with the printing cylinder in contact with each other and to convey a printing medium by nipping the printing medium with the printing cylinder, an inkjet head that forms an image on a surface of the blanket cylinder by squirting heatset ink onto the surface of the blanket cylinder, and a first heating unit that heats up either the printing medium conveyed into a contact portion of the printing cylinder and the blanket cylinder or the blanket cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Printing & Packaging Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Norifumi Tasaka, Makoto Kaji, Shuichi Takemoto, Fumihide Kimura
  • PRINTING DEVICE, PRINTING METHOD, SHEET-FED PRINTING PRESS, AND ROTARY PRINTING PRESS
    Publication number: 20120013693
    Abstract: A printing device includes a rotatable printing cylinder, a blanket cylinder configured to make a synchronous rotation with the printing cylinder in contact with each other and to convey a printing medium by nipping the printing medium with the printing cylinder, an inkjet head that forms an image on a surface of the blanket cylinder by squirting heatset ink onto the surface of the blanket cylinder, and a first heating unit that heats up either the printing medium conveyed into a contact portion of the printing cylinder and the blanket cylinder or the blanket cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Printing & Packaging Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Norifumi Tasaka, Makoto Kaji, Shuichi Takemoto, Fumihide Kimura
  • Wetting apparatus and method for offset printing machines
    Patent number: 5435243
    Abstract: A wetting apparatus for offset printing machines comprising a first wetting roller immersed in a pan having dampening solution, a metering roller contacting with the first wetting roller, a second wetting roller contacting with the metering roller and with a printing surface, an ink application roller contacting with the printing surface, an ink receiving roller rotatably in contact with the second wetting roller and movable toward and away from at least one of the metering roller and the ink application roller, a vibrating roller rotatably in contact with the ink application roller, and an ink transferring roller rotatably in contact with the vibrating roller and movable toward and away from the ink receiving roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1995
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeo Makino, Kazuhiko Sato, Katsutoshi Okazaki, Hajime Yagi, Fumihide Kimura