Patents by Inventor Hiroki Mori

Hiroki Mori 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).

  • Developing Cartridge And Process Cartridge For Stably Rotating Developing Roller
    Publication number: 20160238990
    Abstract: A developing cartridge includes: a housing having first and second sidewalls through which respective end portions of a developing roller shaft are rotatably inserted; a developing gear, which is arranged outside of the first sidewall, and which is fixed to the end portion of the developing roller shaft; a transmission gear, which is arranged outside of the first sidewall, and which transmits driving force to the developing gear; a first cover member, which is attached to the first sidewall, and which covers the transmission gear; and a second cover member, which is attached to the first sidewall, and which covers the developing gear from an outer side in the axis line direction. The second cover member is formed separately from the first cover member and is arranged side by side with the first cover member outside of the first sidewall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroshi Handa, Hiroki Mori
  • FUSER UNIT
    Publication number: 20160231677
    Abstract: A fuser unit of this disclosure includes: an endless belt; a nip member; a belt guide; a stay; a first member; a second member; and a backup member, wherein the belt guide, which is configured to guide the endless belt, has: a first surface, which faces in a direction from a second end portion towards a first end portion of the endless belt; a second surface, which faces in a direction from the first end portion towards the second end portion of the endless belt; a third surface, which faces in a direction from the stay towards the nip member; a fourth surface, which faces in a direction from the nip member towards the stay; a fifth surface and a sixth surface, which face in the conveyance direction and is arranged to be in contact with the first member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventors: Kei Ishida, Takuji Matsuno, Atsushi Ozawa, Hiroki Mori
  • Image Forming Apparatus Provided with Heating Unit and Pressure Roller
    Publication number: 20160231681
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a heating unit; a pressure roller; a first frame supporting the heating unit; a second frame engaging the first frame; a first gear; a second gear; and a fixing member. The second frame supports a shaft portion of the pressure roller. The first gear is provided at one end of the shaft portion and rotatable with the pressure roller. The second gear engages the first gear and transmits a drive force to the first gear. The fixing member has a first portion engaging the shaft portion and a second portion engaging the second frame. At least a part of the first portion engages the shaft portion at a position on a downstream side of the shaft portion in a second direction in which the shaft portion receives a force upon transmission of the drive force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroki Mori, Hiroshi Handa, Tatsuo Ogasawara, Takuji Matsuno
  • Fixing Device
    Publication number: 20160231675
    Abstract: A fixing device includes an endless belt, a heating plate, a pressure roller, a first belt guide and a second belt guide. The endless belt has a tubular shape and extends in a first direction. The heating plate is disposed inside the endless belt and extends in the first direction. The first belt guide guides an end of the endless belt in the first direction and includes an inner guide and a restriction portion to restrict movement of the endless belt in the first direction. The second belt guide faces the first belt guide in a second direction and extends from a vicinity of the heating plate to a vicinity of the inner guide along the inner peripheral surface of the endless belt. An end of the restriction portion in the second direction closer to the heating plate is located closer to the second belt guide than the inner guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventors: Kei Ishida, Takuji Matsuno, Hiroki Mori, Akihiro Kobayashi
  • Automatic analyzing device, information display method thereof, and information display system
    Patent number: 9389238
    Abstract: An automatic analyzing device has an easy-to-use user interface. In particular, the automatic analyzing device for analyzing samples has a reaction disk to which samples are dispensed conveyed through a conveying path; a control unit that controls movement of the reaction disk; and a display unit that is controlled by the control unit and displays various screens. A sample list including sample IDs and states of analysis of the samples is displayed on a display screen of the display unit so that the sample IDs and the states of analysis can be selected, such that a menu displaying button for displaying processing menus for the sample selected in the sample list is displayed at the sample, and such that options of the menus for the sample are displayed as menu buttons when the menu displaying button is indicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Tokunaga, Masaki Takano, Toshihide Orihashi, Hiroki Mori
  • Friction Material for Clutch
    Publication number: 20160195150
    Abstract: A clutch friction material includes a base material containing a rubber material and a thermosetting resin. The clutch friction material also includes an intermediate layer disposed on the base material. The intermediate layer includes either a glassy carbon structure or a graphite structure formed as a result of thermal curing of the thermosetting resin contained in the base material. In addition, the clutch friction material includes an outermost surface layer disposed on the intermediate layer. The outermost surface layer contains a pyrolysate produced as a result of pyrolysis of rubber and resin components contained in the base material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Takeshi YAMADA, Nobuyasu WATANABE, Hiroki MORI, Takashi TAKEHARA, Shinya UNIGAME, Kazushige YOSHIDA, Go YANAGISAWA, Masashi HATANO, Tatsuya OSONE
  • Automatic analysis device
    Patent number: 9383375
    Abstract: An automatic analysis device may enable easy selection of a desired reagent-setting position and efficient execution of reagent information confirmation and reagent usage setup by displaying, at a high level of visibility and in an enlarged format, both of the selected reagent-setting position and means for moving, for example, a mouse pointer to an anterior or posterior display position with respect to the selected reagent-setting position. A display controller may cause display of a list of reagent-setting positions provided in a reagent disk. An extended display controller may cause display, in an enlarged format, of a reagent-setting position that has been selected from the reagent-setting position list displayed by the display controller. The display of the selected reagent-setting position may be enlarged distinctly from that of other reagent-setting positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Sayaka Sarwar, Hiroki Mori, Miki Taki, Yoichi Aruga
  • Developing cartridge
    Patent number: 9383681
    Abstract: A developing cartridge includes: a developing roller that is rotatable about a developing roller axis line, which extends in a predetermined direction; a supply roller, which is rotatable about a supply roller axis line, which extends in the predetermined direction, and which supplies developer to the developing roller; a developing roller driving gear that is connected to the developing roller; a supply roller driving gear that is connected to the supply roller; and a driving force transmission gear, which is rotatable about a gear axis line extending in the predetermined direction, and which includes: a first gear part meshed with the developing roller driving gear; and a second gear part meshed with the supply roller driving gear. The driving force transmission gear transmits driving force to the developing roller driving gear and the supply roller driving gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeyuki Takagi, Hiroki Mori
  • Developing Cartridge
    Publication number: 20160179032
    Abstract: A developing cartridge may include a housing configured to hold toner. The cartridge may further include a developing roller including a developing roller shaft, a supply roller including a supply roller shaft, a developing electrode and a supply electrode. The developing electrode and supply electrode may be configured to guide an electrical contact of an image forming apparatus in one or more directions. In some examples, the developing electrode and supply electrode may have angled surfaces that extend toward one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Takeyuki Takagi, Hiroki Mori
  • Method for manufacturing semiconductor device and the semiconductor device
    Patent number: 9373939
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising the steps of: growing a stacked semiconductor layer on a substrate, the stacked semiconductor layer including an active layer and a cladding layer; forming a mesa structure by etching the stacked semiconductor layer, the mesa structure extending in a [011] direction; and forming a buried layer of Fe-doped InP on the side surface of the mesa structure in a reactor of an organo-metallic vapor phase epitaxy apparatus while supplying a hydrogen chloride gas into the reactor. In the step of forming the buried layer, the hydrogen chloride gas is supplied from the beginning of forming the buried layer. The buried layer has a first region and a second region. The first region has a front surface of a (311)B plane. The second region is formed on the front surface. The Fe concentration of the first region is higher than that of the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Mori, Toshiyuki Tanahashi
  • GLASS FILM RIBBON MANUFACTURING METHOD AND GLASS FILM RIBBON MANUFACTURING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160168003
    Abstract: Provided is a glass film ribbon manufacturing device (1), including: a transverse conveyance unit (4), which is configured to convey a glass film ribbon (G) in a transverse direction; and a cleaving unit (5), which is arranged on a conveyance path of the transverse conveyance unit (4), and is configured to cleave the glass film ribbon (G) along a preset cleaving line extending in a longitudinal direction, the transverse conveyance unit (4) including a wrinkle-smoothing unit (14) configured to smooth a wrinkle generated in the glass film ribbon (G) before the glass film ribbon (G) is cleaved by the cleaving unit (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshinori HASEGAWA, Koichi MORI, Hiroshi NARUSE, Naoya ISHIDA, Hiroki MORI, Taisei MATSUBUSHI, Akio NAKABAYASHI
  • Process cartridge capable of suppressing developer from leaking out of developer cartridge, and image forming apparatus provided with the same
    Patent number: 9354600
    Abstract: A process cartridge includes: a developer cartridge; and a photosensitive-member cartridge. A casing of the photosensitive-member cartridge includes: a photosensitive-member accommodating portion; and a cartridge-accommodating portion disposed next to the photosensitive-member accommodating portion in a first direction. The cartridge-accommodating portion includes a first wall and a first portion. The first wall extends in the first direction and confronts the developer cartridge in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The first wall has a first end and a second end positioned farther away from the photosensitive-member accommodating portion in the first direction than the first end from the photosensitive-member accommodating portion. The first portion extends from the second end in the second direction and protrudes further than the developer cartridge in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroki Mori
  • Developing cartridge and process cartridge for stably rotating developing roller
    Patent number: 9348299
    Abstract: A developing cartridge includes: a housing having first and second sidewalls through which respective end portions of a developing roller shaft are rotatably inserted; a developing gear, which is arranged outside of the first sidewall, and which is fixed to the end portion of the developing roller shaft; a transmission gear, which is arranged outside of the first sidewall, and which transmits driving force to the developing gear; a first cover member, which is attached to the first sidewall, and which covers the transmission gear; and a second cover member, which is attached to the first sidewall, and which covers the developing gear from an outer side in the axis line direction. The second cover member is formed separately from the first cover member and is arranged side by side with the first cover member outside of the first sidewall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Handa, Hiroki Mori
  • Automatic analyzer
    Patent number: 9341638
    Abstract: An automatic analyzer enables users to perform working steps easily and reliably by switching a display screen irrespective of a skill level of the user. The automatic analyzer, which determines a consistency of a test item, includes a display/input section to display a plurality of working steps relating to necessary work flow for measurement. The display/input section is adapted to selectively present a maximized workflow display and a reduced workflow display. The maximized workflow display shows a series of operations and works, and further shows a plurality of operations and works in an order that the plurality of operations and works are processed. In a reduced display of the work flow, the reduced workflow display shows details of a specific operation or work, and a position of the specific operation or work in a sequence that the entire series of operations and works are processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sayaka Sarwar, Tatsuya Tokunaga, Miki Taki, Toshihide Orihashi, Hiroki Mori, Yoichi Aruga, Takashi Nakasawa
  • Process unit
    Patent number: 9335731
    Abstract: A process unit includes a drum frame supporting a photoconductor drum and a development frame supporting a development roller. The development cartridge is swingably supported by the drum frame at a coupling joint provided at a first side of the development frame and a support portion provided at a second side of the development frame. A center of rotation of the development roller is located in a position shifted from a line segment connecting a center of rotation of the coupling joint and a center of rotation of the photoconductor drum to an upstream side with respect to a direction of rotation of the coupling joint as viewed in an axial direction of the development roller, such that the development roller is pressed against the photoconductor drum by the action of the rotatory force received by the coupling joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masatoshi Shiraki, Hiroki Mori
  • Disposable wearing article
    Patent number: 9333122
    Abstract: A disposable wearing article including a buttocks-covering section having tensile force sufficient to prevent this section from lifting and/or quirking during use of the wearing article and being free from anxiety that the buttocks-covering section might irritate the wearer's skin even if this section comes in contact with the wearer's skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Takino, Hiroki Mori
  • Developing Cartridge
    Publication number: 20160124341
    Abstract: A developing cartridge may include a housing configured to hold toner. The cartridge may further include a developing roller including a developing roller shaft, a supply roller including a supply roller shaft, a developing electrode and a supply electrode. The developing electrode and supply electrode may be configured to guide an electrical contact of an image forming apparatus in one or more directions. In some examples, the developing electrode and supply electrode may have angled surfaces that extend toward one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Takeyuki Takagi, Hiroki Mori
  • Developing Cartridge And Process Cartridge For Stably Rotating Developing Roller
    Publication number: 20160109849
    Abstract: A developing cartridge includes: a housing having first and second sidewalls through which respective end portions of a developing roller shaft are rotatably inserted; a developing gear, which is arranged outside of the first sidewall, and which is fixed to the end portion of the developing roller shaft; a transmission gear, which is arranged outside of the first sidewall, and which transmits driving force to the developing gear; a first cover member, which is attached to the first sidewall, and which covers the transmission gear; and a second cover member, which is attached to the first sidewall, and which covers the developing gear from an outer side in the axis line direction. The second cover member is formed separately from the first cover member and is arranged side by side with the first cover member outside of the first sidewall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroshi Handa, Hiroki Mori
  • Image forming apparatus employing cleanerless system
    Patent number: 9317008
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a developing roller and a photosensitive drum configured to rotate about a first axis, and has a peripheral surface. The developing roller is configured to contact the photosensitive drum and is configured to supply developer to the photosensitive drum by rotating about a second axis positioned lower than the first axis in a vertical direction to form a visible image on the peripheral surface. Extraneous matter on the peripheral surface is recovered only by the developing roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Handa, Takeshi Bito, Hiroki Mori
  • Image forming apparatus having housing, exposing member disposed in the housing, and process cartridge mounted in the housing
    Patent number: 9317007
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a housing, a cartridge, and an exposing member. The housing is formed with an opening. The cartridge is configured to be detachably mounted in the housing through the opening. The cartridge is provided with an image bearing member, and a holding part configured to be held by a user so as to remove the cartridge from the housing. The exposing member is disposed in the housing and configured to emit a laser light to the image bearing member in an emitting direction so as to expose the image bearing member to the laser light. The cartridge is mounted in the housing at a side opposite to the opening with respect to a trajectory of the laser light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeyuki Takagi, Hiroki Mori