Patents by Inventor Genya Anan
Genya Anan 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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Patent number: 11052609Abstract: A molding system to manufacture a three-dimensional object corresponding to a three-dimensional model. The molding apparatus includes a slice data generation unit to generate slice data from three-dimensional shape data of the three-dimensional model, and a lamination unit to laminate a layer of a molding material on the basis of the slice data. The slice data generation unit analyzes data, and, if a region in which a layer of a second molding material different from a first molding material is to be laminated on a layer of the first molding material and in which it is difficult to laminate the layers is extracted, modifies the data of a region of at least one of an ith layer and an (i+1)th layer to data in which a portion in which the first molding material is disposed and a portion in which the second molding material is disposed.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2016Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirokazu Usami, Tatsuya Tada, Kenji Karashima, Genya Anan, Takashi Kase, Satoru Yamanaka, Yuji Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 10357956Abstract: A shaping apparatus includes a storage section that stores in advance a first relationship between a temperature of a shaping material and a heating time at a time at which oxidation of the shaping material starts as the shaping material is heated; and a control section that estimates a timing at which the oxidation of a material layer starts, based on an acquisition result from a temperature acquisition section, a measurement result from a time measurement section, and the first relationship stored in the storage section when the material layer on a conveyance body is preheated by a preheating section, and reduces a front surface temperature of the material layer on the conveyance body before the oxidation of the material layer starts.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2017Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirokazu Usami, Tatsuya Tada, Kenji Karashima, Genya Anan, Takashi Kase, Satoru Yamanaka, Yuji Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20190056688Abstract: Occurrence of layering defects is suppressed in a layering forming method where material layers on a conveyance member are heated and layered. A forming apparatus 1 configured to sequentially layer a plurality of material layers and form a three-dimensional object includes a stage having a forming face on which the material layers are layered, a conveyance member configured to support and convey the material layers to a layering position facing the forming face, and a heating member configured to nip the material layers between itself and the forming face of the stage at the layering position, and pressurize and heat the material layer. When a heating region of the heating member is perpendicularly projected onto a plane where a supporting face at which the conveyance member supports the material layer exists, a projection plane of the heating region has extending regions that extend further to the outer side from both edges of the supporting face, on both edges of the projection plane of the heating region.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2018Publication date: February 21, 2019Inventors: Yuji Wakabayashi, Tatsuya Tada, Hirokazu Usami, Kenji Karashima, Genya Anan, Takashi Kase, Satoru Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20190001578Abstract: A molding system to manufacture a three-dimensional object corresponding to a three-dimensional model. The molding apparatus includes a slice data generation unit to generate slice data from three-dimensional shape data of the three-dimensional model, and a lamination unit to laminate a layer of a molding material on the basis of the slice data. The slice data generation unit analyzes data, and, if a region in which a layer of a second molding material different from a first molding material is to be laminated on a layer of the first molding material and in which it is difficult to laminate the layers is extracted, modifies the data of a region of at least one of an ith layer and an (i+1)th layer to data in which a portion in which the first molding material is disposed and a portion in which the second molding material is disposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2016Publication date: January 3, 2019Inventors: Hirokazu Usami, Tatsuya Tada, Kenji Karashima, Genya Anan, Takashi Kase, Satoru Yamanaka, Yuji Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20170232673Abstract: A shaping apparatus includes a storage section that stores in advance a first relationship between a temperature of a shaping material and a heating time at a time at which oxidation of the shaping material starts as the shaping material is heated; and a control section that estimates a timing at which the oxidation of a material layer starts, based on an acquisition result from a temperature acquisition section, a measurement result from a time measurement section, and the first relationship stored in the storage section when the material layer on a conveyance body is preheated by a preheating section, and reduces a front surface temperature of the material layer on the conveyance body before the oxidation of the material layer starts.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2017Publication date: August 17, 2017Inventors: Hirokazu Usami, Tatsuya Tada, Kenji Karashima, Genya Anan, Takashi Kase, Satoru Yamanaka, Yuji Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 8913930Abstract: Provided is the following developer carrying member. The member has high charge-providing performance even under a high-temperature, high-humidity environment, and its surface layer hardly peels off its elastic layer even after long-term standing under the high-temperature, high-humidity environment. The developer carrying member comprises a mandrel, an elastic layer including a silicone rubber, and a surface layer covering a surface of the elastic layer, and the surface layer comprises a binder resin, and a copolymer having structural units of formula (1) and formula (2). R1 represents an alkyl group having 10-18 carbon atoms, R2 represents a methyl group or a hydrogen atom, R3 represents an alkylene group having 1-4 carbon atoms, X? represents a chloride ion, a bromide ion, or a p-toluenesulfonic acid ion, R4 represents a methyl group or a hydrogen atom, and R5 represents an alkylene group having 1-4 carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2012Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toru Ishii, Masaki Yamada, Genya Anan
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Patent number: 8774677Abstract: The present invention provides a developing member onto which a toner or the like is hard to fuse and with which toner conveying performance is unlikely to vary even through long-term usage. The developing member includes a substrate and a surface layer, the surface layer contains a polyurethane resin working as a binder resin and polyurethane resin particles dispersed in the binder resin, and the polyurethane resin working as the binder resin has, between two adjacent urethane bonds, a structure represented by a structural formula (1) and one or both of structures represented by structural formulas (2) and (3), and further has, between two adjacent urethane bonds, a structure represented by a structural formula (4).Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2013Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuji Sakurai, Masaki Yamada, Genya Anan
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Patent number: 8706011Abstract: Provided is a developing member capable of exerting stable performance under various environments. The developing member comprises a mandrel, an elastic layer formed on a periphery of the mandrel, and a surface layer covering a peripheral surface of the elastic layer. The surface layer contains a polyurethane and zinc oxide particles dispersed in the polyurethane, and the polyurethane has, between two adjacent urethane bonds, one or both of structures selected from structures according to the following item (A) and the following item (B): (A) a structure represented by the following structural formula (1), and one or both of structures selected from a structure represented by the following structural formula (2) and a structure represented by the following structural formula (3); and (B) a structure represented by the following structural formula (4).Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2013Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Genya Anan, Masaki Yamada, Yuji Sakurai, Toru Ishii
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Publication number: 20130287454Abstract: Provided is a developing member capable of exerting stable performance under various environments. The developing member comprises a mandrel, an elastic layer formed on a periphery of the mandrel, and a surface layer covering a peripheral surface of the elastic layer. The surface layer contains a polyurethane and zinc oxide particles dispersed in the polyurethane, and the polyurethane has, between two adjacent urethane bonds, one or both of structures selected from structures according to the following item (A) and the following item (B): (A) a structure represented by the following structural formula (1), and one or both of structures selected from a structure represented by the following structural formula (2) and a structure represented by the following structural formula (3); and (B) a structure represented by the following structural formula (4).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2013Publication date: October 31, 2013Inventors: Genya Anan, Masaki Yamada, Yuji Sakurai, Toru Ishii
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Publication number: 20130243480Abstract: The present invention provides a developing member onto which a toner or the like is hard to fuse and with which toner conveying performance is unlikely to vary even through long-term usage. The developing member includes a substrate and a surface layer, the surface layer contains a polyurethane resin working as a binder resin and polyurethane resin particles dispersed in the binder resin, and the polyurethane resin working as the binder resin has, between two adjacent urethane bonds, a structure represented by a structural formula (1) and one or both of structures represented by structural formulas (2) and (3), and further has, between two adjacent urethane bonds, a structure represented by a structural formula (4).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuji Sakurai, Masaki Yamada, Genya Anan
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Patent number: 8503916Abstract: The present invention can provide a developing roller which can form a stable image in wide ranging environments from a low temperature/low humidity environment to a high temperature/high humidity environment. The developing roller includes a surface layer including a silicon oxide film containing at least a carbon atom chemically bonded to a silicon atom, an oxygen atom chemically bonded to a silicon atom, and a fluorine atom chemically bonded to a silicon atom and/or a carbon atom. The silicon oxide film has an abundance ratio of the fluorine atom to the silicon atom (F/Si), an abundance ratio of the oxygen atom forming a chemical bond to the silicon atom to the silicon atom (O/Si), and an abundance ratio of the carbon atom forming a chemical bond to the silicon atom to the silicon atom (C/Si) have values in particular ranges, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2010Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Genya Anan, Masahiro Kurachi
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Publication number: 20130004211Abstract: Provided is the following developer carrying member. The member has high charge-providing performance even under a high-temperature, high-humidity environment, and its surface layer hardly peels off its elastic layer even after long-term standing under the high-temperature, high-humidity environment. The developer carrying member comprises a mandrel, an elastic layer including a silicone rubber, and a surface layer covering a surface of the elastic layer, and the surface layer comprises a binder resin, and a copolymer having structural units of formula (1) and formula (2). R1 represents an alkyl group having 10-18 carbon atoms, R2 represents a methyl group or a hydrogen atom, R3 represents an alkylene group having 1-4 carbon atoms, X? represents a chloride ion, a bromide ion, or a p-toluenesulfonic acid ion, R4 represents a methyl group or a hydrogen atom, and R5 represents an alkylene group having 1-4 carbon atoms.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toru Ishii, Masaki Yamada, Genya Anan
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Patent number: 8309287Abstract: A developing roller has a mandrel, an elastic layer and a cover layer as a surface layer. The cover layer includes a silicon oxide film containing a carbon atom chemically bonded to a silicon atom. In the silicon oxide film, the proportion of the total number of the elements of silicon, oxygen, carbon and hydrogen to the number of all detected elements, as detected with a high-frequency glow discharge light-emission surface analysis method, is 90% or more. The silicon oxide film has an abundance ratio of an oxygen atom chemically bonded to a silicon atom to silicon atoms, (O/Si), of 0.65 or more but 1.95 or less and an abundance ratio of a carbon atom chemically bonded to a silicon atom to silicon atoms, (C/Si), of 0.05 or more but 1.65 or less, and has a ratio of the maximum value to the minimum value of the (C/Si) in a thickness direction of the cover layer, of 1.50 to 33.00.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2009Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yosuke Ata, Genya Anan
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Patent number: 8064808Abstract: A developing roller has a surface layer which can effectively inhibit the bleeding of a low-molecular-weight component from an elastic layer, and can efficiently impart a high electric charge to a negatively chargeable toner, and is excellent in toner-releasing properties. The developing roller has a mandrel, at least one layer of an elastic layer provided on the mandrel and a surface layer provided on the elastic layer, carries and conveys a toner, and develops an electrostatic latent image on an opposing photosensitive member with the toner. The surface layer comprises a silicon compound film containing Si, N, C and H having specific total amounts of the existing elements Si, N, C and H, and specific ratios N/Si, C/Si, and H/Si.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2009Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Genya Anan, Kenichi Yamauchi
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Patent number: 7947339Abstract: A process for producing an electrophotographic roller member comprising a roller base member having a conductive mandrel and an elastic layer, and a film on the elastic layer. The process comprises the step of forming the film by plasma CVD. The step comprises the steps of: placing the roller base member in a chamber in such a way that the distance between the surface of the elastic layer and flat-plate electrodes is 20 mm or more to 100 mm or less; feeding a source gas into the chamber so as to have a pressure of from 13.3 Pa or more to 666.6 Pa or less; and applying to an electrode an electric power of from 0.3 W/cm2 or more to 2.0 W/cm2 or less while rotating the roller base member so that the peripheral speed of from 6 mm/s or more to 170 mm/s or less.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2008Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenichi Yamauchi, Hidenori Satoh, Genya Anan
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Publication number: 20110091240Abstract: The present invention can provide a developing roller which can form a stable image in wide ranging environments from a low temperature/low humidity environment to a high temperature/high humidity environment. The developing roller includes a surface layer comprising a silicon oxide film containing at least a carbon atom chemically bonded to a silicon atom, an oxygen atom chemically bonded to a silicon atom, and a fluorine atom chemically bonded to a silicon atom and/or a carbon atom, wherein the silicon oxide film has an abundance ratio of the fluorine atom to the silicon atom (F/Si), an abundance ratio of the oxygen atom forming a chemical bond to the silicon atom to the silicon atom (O/Si), and an abundance ratio of the carbon atom forming a chemical bond to the silicon atom to the silicon atom (C/Si) have values in particular ranges, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2010Publication date: April 21, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Genya Anan, Masahiro Kurachi
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Patent number: 7747204Abstract: A developing roller is provided which is soft enough to enable toners to be kept from deteriorating with time and cannot easily cause permanent set. The developing roller includes a mandrel, an elastic-material layer and a cover layer as a surface layer which covers the elastic-material layer. Asker-C hardness at the surface of the cover layer is from 40° to 85°. The cover layer has a thickness of from 15 nm to 5,000 nm. Martens hardness H1 (N/mm2) at the surface of the developing roller, Martens hardness H2 (N/mm2) of the elastic-material layer and the thickness d (mm) of the cover layer satisfy the relationship of the following expression (1): 400?(H1?H2)/d?2,000??(1).Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2008Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hidenori Satoh, Kenichi Yamauchi, Genya Anan
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Publication number: 20100068664Abstract: A developing roller has a mandrel, an elastic layer and a cover layer as a surface layer. The cover layer includes a silicon oxide film containing a carbon atom chemically bonded to a silicon atom. In the silicon oxide film, the proportion of the total number of the elements of silicon, oxygen, carbon and hydrogen to the number of all detected elements, as detected with a high-frequency glow discharge light-emission surface analysis method, is 90% or more. The silicon oxide film has an abundance ratio of an oxygen atom chemically bonded to a silicon atom to silicon atoms, (O/Si), of 0.65 or more but 1.95 or less and an abundance ratio of a carbon atom chemically bonded to a silicon atom to silicon atoms, (C/Si), of 0.05 or more but 1.65 or less, and has a ratio of the maximum value to the minimum value of the (C/Si) in a thickness direction of the cover layer, of 1.50 to 33.00.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yosuke Ata, Genya Anan
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Publication number: 20100046989Abstract: A developing roller has a surface layer which can effectively inhibit the bleeding of a low-molecular-weight component from an elastic layer, and can efficiently impart a high electric charge to a negatively chargeable toner, and is excellent in toner-releasing properties. The developing roller has a mandrel, at least one layer of an elastic layer provided on the mandrel and a surface layer provided on the elastic layer, carries and conveys a toner, and develops an electrostatic latent image on an opposing photosensitive member with the toner. The surface layer comprises a silicon compound film containing Si, N, C and H having specific total amounts of the existing elements Si, N, C and H, and specific ratios N/Si, C/Si, and H/Si.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2009Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Genya Anan, Kenichi Yamauchi
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Patent number: 7627276Abstract: A developing roller is provided having a surface that has excellent effect of suppressing exudation of low molecular weight substances from an elastic body, excellent toner release properties, and sufficient flexibility in which cracks do not easily occur even by repeated image formation. The developing roller carries and conveys toner to develop electrostatic latent images on a photosensitive drum with the toner and includes in this order a mandrel, an elastic layer, and a surface layer. The surface layer includes a silicon oxide film containing carbon atoms chemically bonded to silicon atoms. The silicon oxide film has an abundance ratio of oxygen atoms forming chemical bonds with silicon atoms to silicon atoms (O/Si) of 0.65 or more and 1.95 or less, and an abundance ratio of carbon atoms forming chemical bonds with silicon atoms to silicon atoms (C/Si) of 0.05 or more and 1.65 or less.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2008Date of Patent: December 1, 2009Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Genya Anan, Kenichi Yamauchi, Hidenori Satoh