Patents by Inventor Hidenori Matsumoto
Hidenori Matsumoto 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: 8038139Abstract: The inserter including a storing unit, a sheet-feeding unit; a conveyance unit; and a controller that determines for every sheet a conveying speed of the sheet to be discharged to the downstream side device by the conveyance unit, in which the controller determines: the conveying speed of the sheet, which was discharged from the image forming apparatus, when the sheet is discharged to the downstream side device by the conveyance unit, based on the conveying speed when the inserter receives the sheet discharged from the image forming apparatus; and a conveying speed of the insert-sheet, which was fed by the sheet-feeding unit, when the insert-sheet is discharged to the downstream side device by the conveyance unit, based on a conveying speed of one of a preceding sheet and a succeeding sheet, when one of the preceding sheet and the succeeding sheet is discharged to the downstream side device.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2009Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shunsuke Nishimura, Manabu Yamauchi, Naoto Watanabe, Takayuki Fujii, Yushi Oka, Toshiyuki Miyake, Takashi Yokoya, Hidenori Matsumoto, Satoru Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8027602Abstract: A belt feeding apparatus includes an endless belt and a supporting member for rotatably supporting the belt. The belt feeding apparatus further includes a setting member for setting, when the belt is deviated from a widthwisely normal zone, an inclination angle of the supporting member to a return angle to return the belt toward the normal zone. The setting member also sets, when a predetermined time elapses from the belt returning to the normal zone, the inclination angle of the supporting member to a balance angle to keep the belt in the zone.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2008Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Kuroki, Hiroyuki Eda, Takashi Fujimori, Hiroaki Tomiyasu, Hidenori Matsumoto, Junichi Endo, Hajime Kaji
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Publication number: 20110215617Abstract: Provided is an automotive rear vehicle body structure which increases the amount of energy that can be absorbed, improves the safety of the vehicle occupant and protects a fuel tank in a reliable manner at the time of a rear end collision while allowing a spare tire to be placed within a cabin. In an automotive rear vehicle body structure having a H-type torsion beam wheel suspension system (12) pivotally supported by side sill extensions (2a, 3a) on either side of the vehicle body, the wheel suspension system including a pair of trailing arms (13, 14) and a torsion beam (15) connecting intermediate parts of the trailing arms with each other, a pair of rear side frames (6, 7) extend rearwardly from side sills (2, 3), and a spare tire pan (10) is defined by downwardly bulging a part of a rear floor panel (11) located between the rear side frames (6, 7).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2008Publication date: September 8, 2011Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki Izutsu, Kanji Fujii, Yutaka Kobashi, Hidenori Matsumoto, Katsuya Hishiki, Masami Yaguchi
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Patent number: 7938388Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a folding apparatus which folds a sheet bundle, a switching portion which switches a nipping pressure of the folding apparatus against the sheet bundle, and a flattening apparatus which presses and flattens a folded-back portion of the folded sheet bundle. The switching portion operates such that the nipping pressure of the folding apparatus against the sheet bundle when the flattening processing is executed becomes weaker than that of the folding apparatus when the flattening processing is not executed.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2008Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takayuki Fujii, Manabu Yamauchi, Shunsuke Nishimura, Toshiyuki Miyake, Hidenori Matsumoto, Yushi Oka
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Patent number: 7878496Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus for binding a sheet bundle by a binding member having a curved shape, including: a support portion configured to support, as a sheet bundle, a plurality of sheets having punch holes formed therein; an adjustment portion configured to adjust a position of each of punch holes formed in the sheet bundle so that a locus of centers of the punch holes continuing in a thickness direction of the sheet bundle supported by the support portion is aligned with the curved shape of the binding member; and an attaching portion configured to attach the binding member to the punch holes of the sheet bundle in which the position of each of the plurality of sheets is adjusted by the adjustment portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2008Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takayuki Fujii, Manabu Yamauchi, Naoto Watanabe, Shunsuke Nishimura, Yushi Oka, Toshiyuki Miyake, Takashi Yokoya, Hidenori Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20110008089Abstract: The present invention provides a sheet processing apparatus which includes a punch portion punching a hole at an end part of a sheet, and a push-out member discharging the sheet by pushing the end part of the sheet where the punch process is performed by the punch portion; and the push-out member discharges the sheet at a sheet discharging speed lower than a predetermined speed from the intermediate process tray in accordance with punch process information (i.e., combination of a size and a type of the sheet and number, a shape and a size of holes) that strength of a sheet end part is decreased by the punch process, and is lower than predetermined sheet strength capable of being discharged at the predetermined speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2010Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoto Watanabe, Manabu Yamauchi, Takayuki Fujii, Satoru Yamamoto, Yushi Oka, Toshiyuki Miyake, Takashi Yokoya, Shunsuke Nishimura, Hidenori Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20100314049Abstract: The sheet processing apparatus includes a buffer roller to form a sheet bundle by overlapping a plurality of sheets while respectively displacing an end part of each sheet at one end of the conveying direction toward the conveying direction, a fold conveying path to fold the displaced and overlapped sheet bundle twice into three layers so that the end part at one end covers an end part at the other end and the end parts at the one end are respectively exposed, and a sealer to seal the sheet bundle by adhering the end part at the one end of the twice-folded sheet bundle to a surface of the sheet bundle with a seal. The sealer adheres all of the end parts at the one end and the surface of the sheet bundle with a seal having length longer than exposed length of the end parts at the one end.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Manabu Yamauchi, Naoto Watanabe, Takayuki Fujii, Shunsuke Nishimura, Satoru Yamamoto, Yushi Oka, Toshiyuki Miyake, Takashi Yokoya, Hidenori Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20100247203Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus which has a flattening processing unit which presses a folded end of a folded booklet bundle to flatten the folded end, and cutting units which cut and align edges of the booklet bundle, wherein the edges crossing the folded end of the booklet bundle are cut by the cutting unit and the folded end of the booklet is then flattened by the flattening processing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2008Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoto Watanabe, Manabu Yamauchi, Takayuki Fujii, Shunsuke Nishimura, Yushi Oka, Toshiyuki Miyake, Takashi Yokoya, Hidenori Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20100239296Abstract: An image forming apparatus connected to a conveying-speed-changeable sheet post processing device includes a discharging unit which discharges a sheet in a reverse discharge mode with front and back surfaces of the image-formed sheet reversed, and a non-reverse discharge mode without front and back surfaces of the image-formed sheet reversed, and discharges the sheet at a first speed or a second speed lower than the first speed; and a control unit which controls the discharging unit to discharge the sheet at the first speed in the reverse discharge mode and at the second speed in the non-reverse discharge mode. When the sheet is discharged at the second speed, the control unit controls the discharging unit to discharge a subsequent sheet at the second speed even if the subsequent sheet is to be discharged in the reverse discharge mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2010Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kuniyasu Kimura, Yuichiro Maeda, Takuya Hayakawa, Hidenori Matsumoto
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Patent number: 7769911Abstract: A data reading method includes the steps of: a reading request issuing step of issuing a reading request for reading predetermined stored data; and a reading request re-issuing step of re-issuing a reading request when read data responsive to the reading request has not arrived within a predetermined time period, wherein: in the reading request re-issuing step, a flag is attached to the re-reading request, and thus, the re-reading request is differed from the first issued reading request.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2006Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Yuji Hanaoka, Hidenori Matsumoto
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Patent number: 7761045Abstract: A belt feeding apparatus includes an endless belt; a supporting member for rotatably supporting said belt; and setting means for setting, when said belt is deviated from a widthwisely normal zone, an inclination angle of said supporting member to a returning angle to return said belt toward the normal zone, and for setting, when said belt is in the normal zone, the inclination angle of said supporting member to a balance angle.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2008Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Fujimori, Kenji Kuroki, Hiroyuki Eda, Hiroaki Tomiyasu, Hijame Kaji, Junichi Endo, Hidenori Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20090315246Abstract: The inserter including a storing unit, a sheet-feeding unit; a conveyance unit; and a controller that determines for every sheet a conveying speed of the sheet to be discharged to the downstream side device by the conveyance unit, in which the controller determines: the conveying speed of the sheet, which was discharged from the image forming apparatus, when the sheet is discharged to the downstream side device by the conveyance unit, based on the conveying speed when the inserter receives the sheet discharged from the image forming apparatus; and a conveying speed of the insert-sheet, which was fed by the sheet-feeding unit, when the insert-sheet is discharged to the downstream side device by the conveyance unit, based on a conveying speed of one of a preceding sheet and a succeeding sheet, when one of the preceding sheet and the succeeding sheet is discharged to the downstream side device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2009Publication date: December 24, 2009Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shunsuke Nishimura, Manabu Yamauchi, Naoto Watanabe, Takayuki Fujii, Yushi Oka, Toshiyuki Miyake, Takashi Yokoya, Hidenori Matsumoto, Satoru Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20090226191Abstract: A control method for an image forming system capable of preventing reduction of the ability of the system even if a shift transportation function becomes an abnormal condition. An image forming apparatus forms an image on a sheet. A first sheet process apparatus has a first moving unit receiving the sheet on which the image is formed and moving the sheet in a width direction. In a determination step, it is determined whether a second sheet process apparatus having a second moving unit moving the sheet in the width direction is connected to an upstream side of the first sheet process apparatus. In a detection step, it is detected an abnormal condition of the first moving unit. In a sheet movement step, the second moving unit moves the sheet in the width direction if an abnormal condition is detected and the second sheet process apparatus is connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2009Publication date: September 10, 2009Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshiyuki Miyake, Manabu Yamauchi, Naoto Watanabe, Takayuki Fujii, Shunsuke Nishimura, Satoru Yamamoto, Yushi Oka, Takashi Yokoya, Hidenori Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20090103962Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a folding apparatus 556 which folds a sheet bundle, a switching portion which switches a nipping pressure by the folding apparatus 556 against the sheet bundle, and a flattening apparatus 700 which presses and flattens a folded-back portion of the folded sheet bundle, and the switching portion operates such that the nipping pressure by the folding apparatus 556 against the sheet bundle when the flattening processing is executed becomes weaker than that of the folding apparatus 556 when the flattening processing is not executed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2008Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takayuki Fujii, Manabu Yamauchi, Shunsuke Nishimura, Toshiyuki Miyake, Hidenori Matsumoto, Yushi Oka
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Patent number: 7496375Abstract: A transmission power control apparatus which reduces the number of steps required for adjustments of the transmission power control apparatus and performs transmission power control with high accuracy in a wide dynamic range. The apparatus has a first variable amplifying circuit (122) with the resolution of 1 dB and a second variable amplifying circuit (123) with the resolution of 0.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2005Date of Patent: February 24, 2009Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Hidenori Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20080317526Abstract: A belt feeding apparatus includes an endless belt; a supporting member for rotatably supporting said belt; and setting means for setting, when said belt is deviated from a widthwisely normal zone, an inclination angle of said supporting member to a returning angle to return said belt toward the normal zone, and for setting, when said belt is in the normal zone, the inclination angle of said supporting member to a balance angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2008Publication date: December 25, 2008Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Fujimori, Kenji Kuroki, Hiroyuki Eda, Hiroaki Tomiyasu, Hajime Kaji, Junichi Endo, Hidenori Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20080317525Abstract: A belt feeding apparatus includes an endless belt and a supporting member for rotatably supporting the belt. The belt feeding apparatus further includes a setting member for setting, when the belt is deviated from a widthwisely normal zone, an inclination angle of the supporting member to a return angle to return the belt toward the normal zone. The setting member also sets, when a predetermined time elapses from the belt returning to the normal zone, the inclination angle of the supporting member to a balance angle to keep the belt in the zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2008Publication date: December 25, 2008Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji Kuroki, Hiroyuki Eda, Takashi Fujimori, Hiroaki Tomiyasu, Hidenori Matsumoto, Junichi Endo, Hajime Kaji
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Publication number: 20080246205Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus for binding a sheet bundle by a binding member having a curved shape, including: a support portion configured to support, as a sheet bundle, a plurality of sheets having punch holes formed therein; an adjustment portion configured to adjust a position of each of punch holes formed in the sheet bundle so that a locus of centers of the punch holes continuing in a thickness direction of the sheet bundle supported by the support portion is aligned with the curved shape of the binding member; and an attaching portion configured to attach the binding member to the punch holes of the sheet bundle in which the position of each of the plurality of sheets is adjusted by the adjustment portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2008Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takayuki Fujii, Manabu Yamauchi, Naoto Watanabe, Shunsuke Nishimura, Yushi Oka, Toshiyuki Miyake, Takashi Yokoya, Hidenori Matsumoto
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Patent number: 7430393Abstract: A belt feeding apparatus includes an endless belt and a supporting member for rotatably supporting the belt. The belt feeding apparatus further includes a setting member for setting, when the belt is deviated from a widthwisely normal zone, an inclination angle of the supporting member to a return angle to return the belt toward the normal zone, The setting member also sets, when a predetermined time elapses from the belt returning to the normal zone, the inclination angle of the supporting member to a balance angle to keep the belt in the zone.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2007Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Kuroki, Hiroyuki Eda, Takashi Fujimori, Hiroaki Tomiyasu, Hidenori Matsumoto, Junichi Endo, Hajime Kaji
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Patent number: 7430394Abstract: A belt feeding apparatus includes an endless belt and a supporting member for rotatably supporting the belt. A setting member is provided for setting, when the belt is deviated from a widthwisely normal zone, an inclination angle of the supporting member to a returning angle to return the belt toward the normal zone. The setting member also sets, when the belt is in the normal zone, the inclination angle of the supporting member to a balance angle.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2007Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Fujimori, Kenji Kuroki, Hiroyuki Eda, Hiroaki Tomiyasu, Hajime Kaji, Junichi Endo, Hidenori Matsumoto