Patents by Inventor Hidenori Minowa

Hidenori Minowa 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: 7156130
    Abstract: There is provided a toner container filling device and a toner production management system. The toner container filling device is installed at a toner container filling base and is able to fill a toner container with toner automatically, and obtain information about the toner container filling process while filling the toner container with toner. The toner production management system receives the information from the toner container filling device, and determines the amount of toner to be produced at a toner production base and time of delivering toner to the toner container filling base according to the received information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirosato Amano, Tetsuo Noji, Hidenori Minowa
  • Patent number: 7017625
    Abstract: There is provided a toner container filling device and a toner production management system. The toner container filling device is installed at a toner container filling base and is able to fill a toner container with toner automatically, and obtain information about the toner container filling process while filling the toner container with toner. The toner production management system receives the information from the toner container filling device, and determines the amount of toner to be produced at a toner production base and time of delivering toner to the toner container filling base according to the received information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirosato Amano, Tetsuo Noji, Hidenori Minowa
  • Publication number: 20060060260
    Abstract: G There is provided a toner container filling device and a toner production management system. The toner container filling device is installed at a toner container filling base and is able to fill a toner container with toner automatically, and obtain information about the toner container filling process while filling the toner container with toner. The toner production management system receives the information from the toner container filling device, and determines the amount of toner to be produced at a toner production base and time of delivering toner to the toner container filling base according to the received information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2005
    Publication date: March 23, 2006
    Inventors: Hirosato Amano, Tetsuo Noji, Hidenori Minowa
  • Patent number: 6981530
    Abstract: There is provided a toner container filling device and a toner production management system. The toner container filling device is installed at a toner container filling base and is able to fill a toner container with toner automatically, and obtain information about the toner container filling process while filling the toner container with toner. The toner production management system receives the information from the toner container filling device, and determines the amount of toner to be produced at a toner production base and time of delivering toner to the toner container filling base according to the received information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirosato Amano, Tetsuo Noji, Hidenori Minowa
  • Publication number: 20050139285
    Abstract: There is provided a toner container filling device and a toner production management system. The toner container filling device is installed at a toner container filling base and is able to fill a toner container with toner automatically, and obtain information about the toner container filling process while filling the toner container with toner. The toner production management system receives the information from the toner container filling device, and determines the amount of toner to be produced at a toner production base and time of delivering toner to the toner container filling base according to the received information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Hirosato Amano, Tetsuo Noji, Hidenori Minowa
  • Publication number: 20050139284
    Abstract: There is provided a toner container filling device and a toner production management system. The toner container filling device is installed at a toner container filling base and is able to fill a toner container with toner automatically, and obtain information about the toner container filling process while filling the toner container with toner. The toner production management system receives the information from the toner container filling device, and determines the amount of toner to be produced at a toner production base and time of delivering toner to the toner container filling base according to the received information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Hirosato Amano, Tetsuo Noji, Hidenori Minowa
  • Patent number: 6874546
    Abstract: There is provided a toner container filling device and a toner production management system. The toner container filling device is installed at a toner container filling base and is able to fill a toner container with toner automatically, and obtain information about the toner container filling process while filling the toner container with toner. The toner production management system receives the information from the toner container filling device, and determines the amount of toner to be produced at a toner production base and time of delivering toner to the toner container filling base according to the received information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirosato Amano, Tetsuo Noji, Hidenori Minowa
  • Publication number: 20040060611
    Abstract: There is provided a toner container filling device and a toner production management system. The toner container filling device is installed at a toner container filling base and is able to fill a toner container with toner automatically, and obtain information about the toner container filling process while filling the toner container with toner. The toner production management system receives the information from the toner container filling device, and determines the amount of toner to be produced at a toner production base and time of delivering toner to the toner container filling base according to the received information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Hirosato Amano, Tetsuo Noji, Hidenori Minowa