Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Kato
Hiroaki Kato 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: 7979010Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus including at least a latent image bearing member, a latent electrostatic image forming unit, a developing unit which includes at least a developing roller and a supply roller, and a transfer unit, wherein both of a diameter R (mm) of the developing roller and a diameter R? (mm) of the supply roller are 12 mm or less; the toner contains at least a binder resin, a wax, and a colorant with the wax having a melting point of 75° C. or less; an amount of the wax exposed on a surface of the toner is 10 mg/g to 30 mg/g; and when a diameter (mm) of the developing roller is represented by R the toner has a torque T (mNm) satisfying the inequation, 20/R<T<27/R, at a void rate of 58% as measured by a torque measurement method using a conical rotor.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2008Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuoki Fuwa, Yoshihiro Mikuriya, Hideaki Yasunaga, Yoshitaka Sekiguchi, Hiroaki Kato
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Patent number: 7967411Abstract: An apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head capable of ejecting liquid from a plurality of ejection ports by driving a plurality of ejection energy generation elements corresponding to the plurality of ejection portions. The apparatus includes a wiping mechanism capable of wiping an ejection port face in which a plurality of ejection ports is arranged in the liquid ejecting head. The ink ejection from the plurality of ejection ports is performed in a manner of a plurality of divisions. A time interval from a last wiping to a next wiping is adjusted according to an interval of the ejection energy generating elements corresponding to an adjacent ejection port.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2008Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaki Nitta, Katsushi Hara, Jun Shimoji, Kazuhiko Sato, Hiroaki Kato, Yasuyuki Takanaka, Shuuichi Masuda, Toshiaki Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 7953525Abstract: In an electrical powered vehicle including a control device for generating an input/output power command value for a power storage device and a control device for controlling a power conversion device and a rotating electric machine, provided separately, when there is a sudden change in the rotational speed of a rotating electric machine, the input/output power command value of a power storage device intrinsically set by an HV-ECU is corrected corresponding to the change in the rotational speed of the rotating electric machine by a control device MG-ECU detecting the rotational speed of the rotating electric machine, without having to wait for modification of the input/output power command value from the HV-ECU.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2009Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hichirosai Oyobe, Makoto Nakamura, Masaya Yamamoto, Hideaki Saida, Satoru Katoh, Hiroaki Kato, Yoshinori Tomita, Haruki Sato
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Patent number: 7944582Abstract: A carriage drive control method capable of detecting the acceleration of a carriage at low cost, improving external disturbance suppression of the carriage, and thus improving image quality. This method is applied to a printing apparatus which prints by relatively moving on a printing medium a carriage to which a printhead is mounted. In the printing apparatus, the moving velocity of the carriage is detected, the acceleration of the carriage is detected on the basis of outputs from first and second strain gauges which are respectively attached on the two sides of a fixing portion for fixing the carriage on a belt for transmitting a drive force from a carriage motor to the carriage, the carriage velocity is compensated on the basis of the carriage acceleration detected for the detected moving velocity of the carriage, and driving of the carriage motor is feedback-controlled on the basis of the compensated carriage velocity.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2004Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroaki Kato
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Patent number: 7939212Abstract: A flux control apparatus includes an outlet pressure detector for detecting an outlet pressure of a fluid at an outlet of a fluid flow apparatus driven by a drive source for feeding the fluid from an inlet of the fluid flow apparatus and letting the fluid flow out from the outlet of the fluid flow apparatus, a drive amount detector for detecting an amount of drive of the drive source, an estimated flux-calculating apparatus for calculating a flux of the fluid flowing from the fluid flow apparatus as an estimated flux on the basis of the pressure of the fluid and the amount of drive, a control amount-calculating apparatus for calculating an amount of control for the fluid flow apparatus on the basis of the estimated flux and a target flux, and a control apparatus for controlling the drive source on the basis of the amount of control.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2005Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Kato, Kazumasa Takada
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Publication number: 20110071755Abstract: A navigation equipment includes a user position observing unit 15 for calculating the position of the navigation equipment by using the pseudo range and position of each GPS satellite, and a pseudo range error, a user velocity and heading observing unit 16 for calculating the velocity of the navigation equipment from a measured range rate, the position of each GPS satellite, and the position of the navigation equipment, and a user heading searching unit 17 for, when a multipath error is smaller than a specified value, searching for, as the heading of the navigation equipment, a heading whose range rate, which is calculated from a relative movement between the navigation equipment when the navigation equipment changes its heading within a predetermined angle range and a GPS satellite, matches the measured range rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2008Publication date: March 24, 2011Inventors: Tadatomi Ishigami, Masatoshi Fujii, Keika Kan, Sadami Ouchi, Hiroaki Kato, Takeshi Nita, Atsushi Mori
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Patent number: 7878295Abstract: A vehicle steering apparatus 1 includes an EPS actuator 17 and an EPS ECU 18 that controls the EPS actuator 17. The EPS actuator 17 applies an assist force that assists a steering operation. A microcomputer 43 of the EPS ECU 18 determines whether the currently executed oversteer control (OS control) is being intensified or converged. In the OS control intensification state, in which the vehicle stability is low, the microcomputer 43 reduces a damper compensation current command Idp* (Idp**), which is a damper compensation component for attenuating a steering wheel turning speed ?s.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2008Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: JTEKT CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Kato, Satoru Mikamo
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Publication number: 20100292915Abstract: A car navigation system includes a distance sensor 2; an angular velocity sensor 1 for detecting angular velocity having a sensor detection axis in a vertical direction of a casing; an acceleration sensor 3 for detecting acceleration having a sensor detection axis in a back and forth direction of the casing on a horizontal plane; a body velocity and acceleration measuring unit 42 for measuring velocity and acceleration in the body direction of vehicle movement from the signal from the distance sensor; an angular velocity measuring unit 41 for measuring angular velocity from the signal from the angular velocity sensor; a body roll angle estimating unit 43 for estimating a body roll angle from the body direction of vehicle movement velocity and angular velocity; an acceleration sensor output estimating unit 45 for outputting, when the casing is set in the body with a rotation in a yaw direction, estimation values of the output signal of the acceleration sensor at every prescribed angle; and a yaw direction mounType: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2007Publication date: November 18, 2010Inventors: Tadatomi Ishigami, Masatoshi Fujii, Shigeki Kumagai, Keika Kan, Sadami Ouchi, Hiroaki Kato
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Patent number: 7833686Abstract: A toner kit containing at least a black toner, a yellow toner, a magenta toner and a cyan toner, wherein these toners have at least the binder resin, the colorant and the charge controlling agent having the molecular structure containing K+ as the counterion, when the K+ intensity detected by the fluorescent X ray on the surface of the black toner is Kk, the K+ intensity detected by the fluorescent X ray on the surface of the yellow toner is Ky, the K+ intensity detected by the fluorescent X ray on the surface of the magenta toner is Km and the K+ intensity detected by the fluorescent X ray on the surface of the cyan toner is Kc, the following formulae: Kk<Ky, Kk<Km and Kk<Kc are fulfilled is provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2006Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Takuya Kadota, Minoru Nakamura, Masayuki Hagi, Yoshihiro Mikuriya, Katsunori Kurose, Hideaki Yasunaga, Hiroaki Kato, Yoshimichi Ishikawa, Atsushi Yamamoto, Masahide Inoue
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Patent number: 7820348Abstract: To provide a toner recovery apparatus including: a toner transporting duct; and an endless toner transporting belt; wherein the toner transporting belt is rotated in a loop form in such a way that it descends in a region where the outer circumferential surface faces a ceiling surface of the toner transporting duct and that it rises in a region where the outer circumferential surface of the toner transporting belt faces a bottom surface of the toner transporting duct, the toner recovery apparatus transports the residual toner to the outlet by holding the toner by the convex parts, spaces formed between convex parts and the bottom surface of the toner transporting duct, and the toner comprises a binding resin, releasing agent, coloring material and external additive, and torque T (mNm) measured by torque measurement method using a conical rotor in a space ratio of 50% to 60% is 1.0 to 2.5.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2010Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Hagi, Yoshihiro Mikuriya, Yoshitaka Sekiguchi, Hideaki Yasunaga, Hiroaki Kato, Kazuoki Fuwa, Masahide Inoue, Yoshiyuki Shimizu
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Patent number: 7817946Abstract: The present invention provides a developing device that allows for maintaining the conveyance amount of a toner within a certain definite range. A developing device 12 of the present invention is provided with a toner conveying unit 13 configured to convey a first toner and a controlling member 15 configured to control the thickness of a toner layer formed with the first toner conveyed by the toner conveying unit 13, wherein a second toner provided with a charged amount per unit mass that differs from a charged amount per unit mass of the first toner is applied over the surface of the controlling member 15.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2007Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Murakami, Masahide Inoue, Masayuki Hagi, Takuya Kadota, Yoshihiro Mikuriya, Katsunori Kurose, Hideaki Yasunaga, Hiroaki Kato, Yoshimichi Ishikawa, Kazuoki Fuwa
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Patent number: 7749671Abstract: To provide a toner containing at least a toner base containing a binder resin and a colorant, and an inorganic fine particle, wherein the inorganic fine particle contains a compound oxide expressed by the following Composition Formula (1): [M1]aSibOc??Composition Formula (1) where “M1” represents a metal element selected from Sr, Mg, Zn, Co, Mn and Ce, “a” and “b” each represents an integer of 1 to 9 and “c” represents an integer of 3 to 9, wherein an average primary particle diameter of the compound oxide is 0.02 ?m to 1.5 ?m, and an average secondary particle diameter of the compound oxide is 0.08 ?m to 3.5 ?m, where the secondary particle is an aggregate of the primary particles.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2006Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Yamamoto, Masahide Inoue, Chiyoshi Nozaki, Minoru Nakamura, Masayuki Hagi, Yoshihiro Mikuriya, Tsuyoshi Nozaki, Hiroaki Kato, Takuya Kadota, Katsunori Kurose, Hideaki Yasunaga, Yoshimichi Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20100167196Abstract: To provide a toner recovery apparatus including: a toner transporting duct; and an endless toner transporting belt; wherein the toner transporting belt is rotated in a loop form in such a way that it descends in a region where the outer circumferential surface faces a ceiling surface of the toner transporting duct and that it rises in a region where the outer circumferential surface of the toner transporting belt faces a bottom surface of the toner transporting duct, the toner recovery apparatus transports the residual toner to the outlet by holding the toner by the convex parts, spaces formed between convex parts and the bottom surface of the toner transporting duct, and the toner comprises a binding resin, releasing agent, coloring material and external additive, and torque T (mNm) measured by torque measurement method using a conical rotor in a space ratio of 50% to 60% is 1.0 to 2.5.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2010Publication date: July 1, 2010Inventors: Masayuki Hagi, Yoshihiro Mikuriya, Yoshitaka Sekiguchi, Hideaki Yasunaga, Hiroaki Kato, Kazuoki Fuwa, Masahide Inoue, Yoshiyuki Shimizu
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Publication number: 20100161180Abstract: A motor-driven steering controller for controlling a steering wheel of a vehicle. The controller includes a steering torque controlling unit, a braking force estimating unit, a right and left braking force difference estimating unit and an assist steering torque providing unit. The steering torque controlling unit controls a steering torque on the steering wheel depending on a steering operation. The braking force estimating unit estimates braking forces to be imposed on wheels of the vehicle. The right and left braking force difference estimating unit estimates difference between the braking forces to be imposed on the right and left wheels each estimated by the braking forces estimating unit. The assist steering torque providing unit provides an assist steering torque for the steering torque controlling unit on the basis of the difference in braking force between right and left wheels estimated by the right and left braking force difference estimating unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2010Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicants: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JTEKT CORPORATION, ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yasui, Wataru Tanaka, Yuji Muragishi, Eiichi Ono, Katsuhiro Asano, Minekazu Momiyama, Hiroaki Kato, Kenji Asano
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Publication number: 20100147267Abstract: To provide a fuel injection system that can efficiently supply high pressure fuel to fuel injectors of an internal combustion engine, whose design and manufacture are made easy by simplifying its mechanical configuration, and which has excellent maintainability during repair and detachment.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2007Publication date: June 17, 2010Inventors: Hiroaki Kato, Takao Iwasaki, Teruo Ohsawa, Hiroyuki Yano
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Patent number: 7739001Abstract: A vehicle steering apparatus for improving steering feel when changing the angle of a steered wheel with a motor. An IFS torque compensation unit includes an oversteer IFS torque compensation gain calculation unit, which obtains a larger IFS torque compensation gain as a control target element increases during oversteer control. When an oversteer state occurs, the IFS torque compensation control unit outputs a corrected gain, which is based on the IFS torque compensation gain.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2005Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: JTEKT CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Kato, Shinji Takeuchi
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Patent number: 7720428Abstract: To provide a toner recovery apparatus including: a toner transporting duct; and an endless toner transporting belt; wherein the toner transporting belt is rotated in a loop form in such a way that it descends in a region where the outer circumferential surface faces a ceiling surface of the toner transporting duct and that it rises in a region where the outer circumferential surface of the toner transporting belt faces a bottom surface of the toner transporting duct, the toner recovery apparatus transports the residual toner to the outlet by holding the toner by the convex parts, spaces formed between convex parts and the bottom surface of the toner transporting duct, and the toner comprises a binding resin, releasing agent, coloring material and external additive, and torque T (mNm) measured by torque measurement method using a conical rotor in a space ratio of 50% to 60% is 1.0 to 2.5.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2008Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Hagi, Yoshihiro Mikuriya, Yoshitaka Sekiguchi, Hideaki Yasunaga, Hiroaki Kato, Kazuoki Fuwa, Masahide Inoue, Yoshiyuki Shimizu
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Patent number: 7699137Abstract: A motor-driven steering controller for controlling a steering wheel of a vehicle. The controller includes a steering torque controlling unit, a braking force estimating unit, a right and left braking force difference estimating unit and an assist steering torque providing unit. The steering torque controlling unit controls a steering torque on the steering wheel depending on a steering operation. The braking force estimating unit estimates braking forces to be imposed on wheels of the vehicle. The right and left braking force difference estimating unit estimates difference between the braking forces to be imposed on the right and left wheels each estimated by the braking forces estimating unit. The assist steering torque providing unit provides an assist steering torque for the steering torque controlling unit on the basis of the difference in braking force between right and left wheels estimated by the right and left braking force difference estimating unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2007Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignees: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Jtekt Corporation, Advics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yasui, Wataru Tanaka, Yuji Muragishi, Eiichi Ono, Katsuhiro Asano, Minekazu Momiyama, Hiroaki Kato, Kenji Asano
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Publication number: 20100094497Abstract: In an electrical powered vehicle including a control device for generating an input/output power command value for a power storage device and a control device for controlling a power conversion device and a rotating electric machine, provided separately, when there is a sudden change in the rotational speed of a rotating electric machine, the input/output power command value of a power storage device intrinsically set by an HV-ECU is corrected corresponding to the change in the rotational speed of the rotating electric machine by a control device MG-ECU detecting the rotational speed of the rotating electric machine, without having to wait for modification of the input/output power command value from the HV-ECU.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2009Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hichirosai Oyobe, Makoto Nakamura, Masaya Yamamoto, Hideaki Saida, Satoru Katoh, Hiroaki Kato, Yoshinori Tomita, Haruki Sato
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Publication number: 20100012287Abstract: To provide an apparatus for cast-product production line that can separate cast product and casting sand without ever using a jumbolized casting-mold disassembling device, and additionally that can intend the downsizing of mold-disassembling unit. An apparatus for cast-product production line has the following jointly: a kneader 94 for kneading casting sand for making mold; a mold maker 3 for making a sand casting mold 2 from the casting sand for making mold, the sand casting mold 2 being provided with a molding cavity 23 for forming a singular cast product or plural products 27; a molten-metal pourer 4 for pouring molten metal into said molding cavity 23 of the sand casting mold 2; and a mold disassembler 5 for disassembling the sand casting mold 2 having undergone molten-metal pouring. Upon disassembling the sand casting mold 2 by the mold disassembler 5, the sand casting mold 2 is disassembled in such a state that the cast product 27 is supported by means of a cast-product supporter element 52.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2006Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: AISIN TAKAOKA CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki Kato, Shinichi Tyomatsuken