Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Tanahashi

Hirofumi Tanahashi 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: 20230237118
    Abstract: In order to solve a conventional problem that it is not possible to manage partial content in a webpage as a block and execute processing on the block, a webpage processing apparatus 7 includes: a block information storage unit 711 in which one or more pieces of block information each having a block identifier for identifying a block, which is partial content in a webpage, and location identifying information for specifying a location of the block in the webpage are stored; a block processing unit 731 that executes block processing, which is processing regarding a block specified with block information, using location identifying information contained in any one of the one or more pieces of block information; and a result output unit 751 that outputs a block processing result, which is a result of the block processing. Accordingly, it is possible to manage a block, which is partial content in a webpage, and execute processing on the block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Takahiro TOKUNAGA, Yuichi YABU, Takami YAMADA, Kazuhiro KIMURA, Ryosuke SUZUKI, Naoya MUTO, Hirofumi TANAHASHI, Minori TOKUDA
  • Patent number: 6333797
    Abstract: A document feeder which picks up documents from a tray, separates/feeds a document with a feed roller and a separation roller and transports the document on a reading position with read rollers. The speed of feeding a document by the feed roller is higher than the speed of transporting a document by the read rollers. The reading position is at a distance from the nip portion between the feed roller and the separation roller, the distance being longer than the length in the document feeding direction of the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunihiko Katsuta, Akiyoshi Johdai, Tohru Murakami, Hirofumi Tanahashi
  • Patent number: 5470051
    Abstract: An automatic document feeder for conveying a document on a platen glass. Back-up rollers for pressing a conveyer belt against the platen glass are loosely supported by a body frame. The shafts of a driving roller and a driven roller for rotating the conveyer belt, and the supporting member of the back-up rollers each have an end which is detachable from the body frame. The body frame has a first frame pivoted on a copying machine and a second frame for holding the conveyer belt and its motor. The second frame is connected with the first frame such that the second frame is movable from and to the platen glass with a specified range, and further the second frame is urged in a direction separating from the platen glass. The second frame is also movable in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the pivot of the first frame extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1995
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuusuke Morigami, Hirokazu Matsuo, Hirofumi Tanahashi, Yoshihito Hirano, Hiroyasu Nagato, Takuma Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 5327206
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a refeeding unit for temporarily containing image-formed sheets as a horizontal pile and for refeeding the sheets for the second image forming operation. The refeeding unit can be pulled out from a body frame in the direction perpendicular to a sheet transporting direction. A setting position of the refeeding unit in the body frame can be adjusted to be parallel with the sheet transporting direction. The refeeding unit has an intermediate tray on which the sheets are piled, a refeeding roller which feeds the sheets piled on the intermediate tray from the most bottom sheet successively one by one, a sheet front end aligning member, a sheet rear end aligning member, a sheet side aligning member and a sheet pressing plate which, every time a sheet is transported to the intermediate tray and every time a sheet is refed from the intermediate tray, presses the sheet toward the refeeding roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1994
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahide Ueda, Takashi Onishi, Takuma Ishikawa, Hirofumi Tanahashi
  • Patent number: 5292113
    Abstract: An automatic document feeder for conveying a document on a platen glass. Back-up rollers for pressing a conveyer belt against the platen glass are loosely supported by a body frame. The shafts of a driving roller and a driven roller for rotating the conveyer belt, and the supporting member of the back-up rollers each have an end which is detachable from the body frame. The body frame has a first frame pivoted on a copying machine and a second frame for holding the conveyer belt and its motor. The second frame is connected with the first frame such that the second frame is movable from and to the platen glass with a specified range, and further the second frame is urged in a direction separating from the platen glass. The second frame is also movable in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the pivot of the first frame extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1994
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuusuke Morigami, Hirokazu Matsuo, Hirofumi Tanahashi, Yoshihito Hirano, Hiroyasu Nagato, Takuma Ishikawa