Patents by Inventor Fumio Furusawa

Fumio Furusawa 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: 20120099884
    Abstract: A detection device includes: an imaging unit that forms an image of an incident beam on an image detection unit; an emission unit that includes a guided portion that is guided to a guiding portion provided at the imaging unit and guiding an attachment-detachment operation of the guided portion, a positioned portion that is positioned in a positioning portion provided at the imaging unit, and an emission member that emits a beam toward a direction of a transportation path such that a beam reflected from the medium is incident to the imaging unit; and a setting unit that includes a positioned portion that is positioned in a positioning portion provided at the emission unit when a drawing unit is pressure-inserted into the image forming apparatus and a setting surface that sets a position on the medium at which the beam is reflected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko NAKAIE, Masao Ito, Fumio Furusawa, Junichi Morooka, Shusaku Yokota, Kota Ninomiya
  • Publication number: 20120099126
    Abstract: A detecting device includes a detecting unit that detects an image on a medium transported in a transport path. The detecting unit includes a light emitter, a light receiver, and a light adjusting portion. The light emitter emits light toward the transport path in which the medium is transported. The light receiver receives reflected light of the light emitted from the light emitter. The light adjusting portion adjusts a quantity of light received by the light receiver according to a quantity of light emitted from the light emitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shusaku Yokota, Masao Ito, Fumio Furusawa, Katsuhiko Nakaie, Junichi Morooka, Kota Ninomiya
  • Publication number: 20120097872
    Abstract: A detecting apparatus includes: a transmission member that is provided facing a conveying path on which a medium is conveyed and that transmits light from the medium being conveyed on the conveying path; a detecting section that detects the medium or an image on the medium from the light which is transmitted through the transmission member, wherein the light is received by a light-receiving member of the detection section; an opposing member that is provided on an opposite side of the conveying path from the transmission member and has at least a first opposing surface that faces the transmission member; and a guide member provided at a downstream side of the opposing member in the conveying direction, and guides the medium downstream in the conveying path. The opposing surface is closer to the detecting section at a downstream side than at an upstream side thereof in the conveying direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masao ITO, Fumio FURUSAWA
  • Publication number: 20120099874
    Abstract: A detection device includes: a detection member that includes an emission member emitting a beam toward a transportation direction of a transportation path and a beam receiving member receiving a reflected beam of the beam emitted from the emission member, and that detects an image on a medium; a transmissive member that allows the beam emitted from the emission member and the beam reflected from the medium to be transmitted therethrough; and a support member that has an open portion blocked by the transmissive member, and that supports an upstream end portion of the transmissive member in the transportation direction of the medium at an upstream portion of the open portion toward the medium, an edge portion of a downstream portion of the open portion in the transportation direction being located closer to the emission member than a bottom surface of the transmissive member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko NAKAIE, Masao ITO, Fumio FURUSAWA, Junichi MOROOKA, Shusaku YOKOTA, Kota NINOMIYA
  • Publication number: 20120099873
    Abstract: A sensing device including: a sensing section having an illuminating section that illuminates light and a light-receiving section that receives reflected light of light illuminated from the illuminating section, the sensing section sensing an image on a recording medium; a housing that accommodates the illuminating section; a covering member covering the housing, that is freely installed at and removed from the housing, having a transmitting member through which the light from the illuminating section is transmitted; and a setting section disposed at an opposite side to a housing side with respect to the covering member, the setting section being freely installed at and removed from the housing, and having a setting surface that sets a position at which the recording medium reflects light, wherein, at a positioning portion of the setting section, the covering member is positioned at least in a direction perpendicular to the setting surface, is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kota NINOMIYA, Masao ITO, Fumio FURUSAWA, Katsuhiko NAKAIE, Junichi MOROOKA, Shusaku YOKOTA
  • Publication number: 20120044521
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a body that has a first connection portion and a second connection portion inside the body; an image processing board that is electrically connected to the first connection portion, the image processing board performing image processing; a functional board that is disposed so as to cover a part of the image processing board on one side of the image processing board; a side panel attached to the image processing board at a position opposite to the first connection portion, the side panel being a part of a side surface of the body; and an extension board disposed so as to cover another part of the image processing board on the same side as the functional board with respect to the image processing board, the extension board being electrically connected to the second connection portion and independently attachable to and removable from the image processing board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shiroh SUZUKI, Tetsuo ISHIZUKA, Fumio FURUSAWA, Osamu UTO
  • Publication number: 20110076048
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main unit and a process cartridge including: an image holding member rotating about a rotation axis; an image developing device to develop a latent image on the image holding member; and a supporting member formed with a side face spreading in a direction of the rotation axis to support the image holding member and the image developing device and be moved in the direction to be attached/detached to/from the main unit. The main unit includes a main unit connector positioned adjacently to a side face of the supporting member of the process cartridge attached to the main unit such that a face mating with a counterpart connector faces the side face. The process cartridge includes on the side face a cartridge side connector electrically connected to the main unit side connector when the process cartridge is attached to the main unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu UTO, Tetsuo ISHIZUKA, Fumio FURUSAWA, Shiroh SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20100215394
    Abstract: An image forming device includes an image forming unit that forms a toner image; an image-transfer unit that transfers the toner image formed by the image forming unit onto an recording medium; a fixing unit that fixes the toner image transferred on the recording medium by the image-transfer unit; a conveyance path that guides the recording medium toward the image-transfer unit by changing a conveyance direction of the recording medium fixed with the toner image by the fixing unit; and a reverse path that has at least a partial overlap with the conveyance path in a vertical direction by being folded in a direction opposite to a direction of the conveyance path, and turns over the recording medium by conveying the recording medium toward the image-transfer unit from a front end portion of the recording medium conveying the recording medium toward the image-transfer unit from a front end portion of the recording medium to a rear end portion of the recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio FURUSAWA, Tetsuo Ishizuka, Shiroh Suzuki, Osamu Uto
  • Publication number: 20100189447
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium; a heating device that heats the image formed at the image forming unit, on the recording medium while recording medium is conveyed; a detecting device that is provided on a downstream side of the heating device in a recording medium conveying direction and detects image density and an image defect of the recording medium; and a stabilizing device that is provided between the detecting device and the heating device and stabilizes physical changes in the recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ishizuka, Fumio Furusawa, Osamu Uto, Shiroh Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20100164166
    Abstract: A recording material processing apparatus includes a recording material supplying device supplying a recording material, an image recording device recording an image on the recording material, a recording material transporting mechanism and a burr curing device including a pressurizing member for curing the burrs at the edge of the recording material. The recording material transporting mechanism changes a transporting state of the recording material at a predetermined transportation changing position. The pressurizing member is provided on a recording material transporting path between the recording material supplying device and the transportation changing position and is provided on the side nearer to the recording material supplying device than a trailing end position. The trailing end position indicates a position of the trailing end of the recording material in the transporting path when a leading end of the recording material in the transporting direction passes the transportation changing position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Inventors: Fumio Furusawa, Masataka Konishi, Yasushi Kawahata, Masakazu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7672627
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an intermediate transfer body; a plurality of image forming portions; a secondary transfer unit; a recording medium accommodating container; a waste toner accommodating container; a first electrical part; and a second electrical part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shiroh Suzuki, Tetsuo Ishizuka, Fumio Furusawa, Osamu Uto
  • Publication number: 20090080947
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an intermediate transfer body; a plurality of image forming portions; a secondary transfer unit; a recording medium accommodating container; a waste toner accommodating container; a first electrical part; and a second electrical part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shiroh SUZUKI, Tetsuo ISHIZUKA, Fumio FURUSAWA, Osamu UTO
  • Patent number: 7397139
    Abstract: An encapsulating epoxy resin molding material, comprising (A) an epoxy resin, (B) a curing agent, and (C) an inorganic filler, wherein the inorganic filler (C) has an average particle size of 12 ?m or less and a specific surface area of 3.0 m2/g or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryoichi Ikezawa, Naoki Nara, Hideyuki Chaki, Yoshihiro Mizukami, Yoshinori Endou, Takaki Kashihara, Fumio Furusawa, Masaki Yoshii, Shinsuke Hagiwara, Mitsuo Katayose
  • Publication number: 20060214153
    Abstract: 1. An encapsulating epoxy resin molding material, comprising (A) an epoxy resin, (B) a curing agent, and (C) an inorganic filler, wherein the inorganic filler (C) has an average particle size of 12 ?m or less and a specific surface area of 3.0 m2/g or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2004
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Inventors: Ryoichi Ikezawa, Naoki Nara, Hideyuki Chaki, Yoshihiro Mizukami, Yoshinori Endou, Takaki Kashihara, Fumio Furusawa, Masaki Yoshii, Shinsuke Hagiwara, Mitsuo Katayose
  • Patent number: 6713589
    Abstract: This invention provides a compound suitable as an encapsulating material for electronic devices and having a high Tg, low moisture-absorption, high adhesion and fluidity which is a cyclopentylene compound represented by Formula (I) and its intermediate cyclopentenyl compound represented by Formula (III). In the formula, m is 0 or more, Ar1 and Ar2 are each a phenol residual group, a naphthol residual group or a fluorene derivative residual group, and each contain a hydroxyl group or a glycidyloxyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruaki Sue, Shinsuke Hagiwara, Fumio Furusawa, Seiichi Akagi, Akihiro Kobayashi, Hideki Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20020065386
    Abstract: This invention provides, as a novel compound suited as an encapsulating material for electronic devices, having a high Tg, being low moisture-absorptive, having a high adhesion and being rich in fluidity, a cyclopentylene compound represented by Formula (I) and its intermediate cyclopentenyl compound represented by Formula (III). In the formula, m is 0 or more, Ar1 and Ar2 are each a phenol residual group, a naphthol residual group or a fluorene derivative residual group, and each contain a hydroxyl group or a glycidyloxyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Applicant: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruaki Sue, Shinsuke Hagiwara, Fumio Furusawa, Seiichi Akagi, Akihiro Kobayashi, Hideki Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 6329492
    Abstract: This invention provides a compound suitable as an encapsulating material for electronic devices and having a high Tg, low moisture-absorptive, high adhesion and rich fluidity, which is a cyclopentylene compound represented by Formula (I) and its intermediate cyclopentenyl compound represented by Formula (III). In the formula, m is 0 or more, Ar1 and Ar2 are each a phenol residual group, a naphthol residual group or a fluorene derivative residual group, and each contain a hydroxyl group or a glycidyloxyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruaki Sue, Shinsuke Hagiwara, Fumio Furusawa, Seiichi Akagi, Akihiro Kobayashi, Hideki Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 6243550
    Abstract: An image formation apparatus for document production of reproduction which includes a plurality of paper feed trays T1-T4 placed in overlapped relation at multiple stages from top to bottom wherein the length of the top-stage paper feed tray T1 in the paper feed direction is formed shorter than the length of each of the paper feed trays T2-T4 at lower stages in the paper feed direction, an image support 16, an intermediate transfer body B, and a secondary transfer device 31 placed in a tray upward paper feed side space Sa above the paper feed tray T1, a fuser T placed in a top-stage tray side space Sb1 on the side of the top-stage paper feed tray T1 and an upward side space Sb2 above the space Sb1, and a developing unit D placed in the upward side space Sb2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Fuchiwaki, Yasutomo Ishii, Nobukazu Takahashi, Kazunori Numao, Fumio Furusawa, Junichiro Sameshima, Hitoshi Funato, Ryuji Hattori
  • Patent number: 6207789
    Abstract: The present invention provides a resin containing in the backbone chain a structural unit represented by the following Formula (I) or (II), as a novel phenolic resin having a high Tg, a low moisture absorption, a low molding shrinkage, high adhesive properties and high flow properties. The present invention also provides a resin composition and a molding material each containing the above resin, and an electronic component device having a device element encapsulated with it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruaki Sue, Shinsuke Hagiwara, Fumio Furusawa, Seiichi Akagi, Kazuyoshi Tendo
  • Patent number: 6078762
    Abstract: An image formation apparatus for document production or reproduction which includes a plurality of paper feed trays T1-T4 placed in overlapped relation at multiple stages from top to bottom wherein the length of the top-stage paper feed tray T1 in the paper feed direction is formed shorter than the length of each of the paper feed trays T2-T4 at lower stages in the paper feed direction, an image support 16, an intermediate transfer body B, and a secondary transfer device 31 placed in a tray upward paper feed side space Sa above the paper feed tray T1, a fuser T placed in a top-stage tray side space Sb1 on the side of the top-stage paper feed tray T1 and an upward side space Sb2 above the space Sb1, and a developing unit D placed in the upward side space Sb2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Fuchiwaki, Yasutomo Ishii, Nobukazu Takahashi, Kazunori Numao, Fumio Furusawa, Junichiro Sameshima, Hitoshi Funato, Ryuji Hattori