Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Katayama

Hiroshi Katayama 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: 11345146
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head including a channel member and a temperature sensor. The channel member includes: a plurality of individual channels aligned in a first direction; a first common channel extending in the first direction and communicating with the plurality of individual channels; a second common channel extending in the first direction, communicating with the plurality of individual channels and arranged side by side to the first common channel in a second direction crossing the first direction; and a connecting channel extending in the second direction and connecting an end in the first direction of the first common channel and an end in the first direction of the second common channel. The temperature sensor overlaps with the connecting channel in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keita Sugiura, Shohei Koide, Keita Hirai, Hiroshi Katayama
  • Patent number: 11338582
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus configured to discharge a liquid, including a channel member for the liquid. The channel member is formed to include: individual channels; a first and second manifold channels; and a bypass channel. Each of the individual channels and the bypass channel are all connected to the first manifold channel on only one of an upper and lower sides of a central portion between upper and lower surfaces of the first manifold channel, and connected to the second manifold channel on only one of upper and lower sides of a central portion between upper and lower surfaces of the second manifold channel. A channel resistance of the bypass channel is smaller than that of the individual channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Katayama, Shohei Koide, Keita Hirai, Keita Sugiura
  • Patent number: 11331906
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes: a supply manifold; a feedback manifold; and a plurality of individual flow channels. Each of the individual flow channels includes: a supply portion, a descender portion, and a feedback portion. The supply manifold has a plurality of supply ports, and the feedback manifold has a plurality of feedback ports. A distance between the center of the supply manifold in one direction and the plurality of supply ports of the supply manifold is longer than ¼ of a width of the supply manifold in the one direction, and a distance in the one direction between the center of the feedback manifold in the one direction and the plurality of feedback ports of the feedback manifold is shorter than ¼ of a width of the feedback manifold in the one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shohei Koide, Keita Hirai, Keita Sugiura, Hiroshi Katayama
  • Patent number: 11305532
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes pressure chambers arrayed in an array direction, a supply manifold extending in the array direction, a return manifold disposed below the supply manifold, and a bypass channel. Each pressure chamber receives a pressure for ejecting liquid from a corresponding nozzle. The supply manifold communicates with the pressure chambers and includes a supply opening through which liquid enters from an exterior. The return manifold is formed by a first forming unit to extend in the array direction and communicate with the pressure chambers, and includes a return opening through which liquid exits to the exterior. The bypass channel connects the supply manifold and the return manifold. The first forming unit includes a first top surface defining a top surface of the return manifold, and a first protrusion protruding downward from the first top surface and having a lower end at which the bypass channel is open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keita Hirai, Shohei Koide, Keita Sugiura, Hiroshi Katayama
  • Patent number: 11285720
    Abstract: A liquid discharging head includes: a pressure chamber; a descender extending from the pressure chamber in a first direction; a communicating channel extending from the descender in a second direction crossing the first direction; a first return channel and a second return channel connecting the communicating channel and a return manifold; and a nozzle connected to the communicating channel. The first return channel and the second return channel are connected, with respect to the communicating channel, at facing positions, respectively, the facing positions facing each other in a direction orthogonal to the second direction; and the nozzle is provided, in the communicating channel, at a position which is offset from an axis of the descender, and which is sandwiched between a connecting location of the first return channel with respect the communicating channel and a connecting location of the second return channel with respect to the communicating channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keita Sugiura, Jiro Yamamoto, Shotaro Kanzaki, Taisuke Mizuno, Hiroshi Katayama
  • Patent number: 11285726
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a supply manifold, a return manifold, and individual channels each connected, at its upstream end, to the supply manifold and, at its downstream end, to the return manifold. Each of the individual channels communicates with a corresponding one of nozzles arranged in an array on a nozzle surface. The supply manifold and the return manifold extend in an extending direction along the nozzle array. The return manifold includes a lower portion located below the supply manifold to overlap the supply manifold in plan view orthogonal to the nozzle surface, and a standing portion located at at least one of opposite ends of the lower portion in the extending direction to be outside the supply manifold in plan view. The standing portion has a height to cover at least a portion of an end of the supply manifold when viewed in the extending direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keita Hirai, Shohei Koide, Keita Sugiura, Hiroshi Katayama
  • Patent number: 11273637
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a nozzle, a pressure chamber configured to receive a pressure to eject liquid from the nozzle, a descender, and a communication channel. The descender has a first end and a second end opposite to each other. The first end is connected to the pressure chamber. The communication channel is connected to the second end and extends from a connection with the second end in an X direction. A first direction in which the descender extends from the second end toward the first end is inclined toward the communication channel relative to a Y direction orthogonal to the X direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keita Hirai, Shohei Koide, Keita Sugiura, Hiroshi Katayama
  • Patent number: 11273644
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head including a channel unit that includes plates stacked on top of each other in a first direction and is formed having individual channels, a first common channel, and a second common channel. The first and second common channels communicate with the individual channels. Each individual channel includes a nozzle, a pressure chamber, a descender, a first throttle channel, and a second throttle channel. The plates include a nozzle plate, a pressure chamber plate, and a first plate formed having a first through hole that constitutes part of the descender. A center portion of the nozzle is positioned at a side opposite to the second throttle channel in the second direction with respect to a center portion of the descender.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Katayama, Taisuke Mizuno, Jiro Yamamoto, Shotaro Kanzaki, Keita Sugiura
  • Patent number: 11254140
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes: first and second common channels extending in a first direction; and individual channels including pressure chambers and nozzles. Each of the individual channels includes: a supply portion; a descender portion extending in a second direction; and a return portion extending in a third direction. The return portion includes: a throttle portion; and a wide portion. Each of the nozzles overlaps with the wide portion. A relationship of L2>L1 is satisfied, wherein L1 is a distance in the third direction from a center of each of the nozzles to a throttle starting position, and L2 is a distance in the third direction passing through a center in a cross section of the descender portion and ranging from a center line parallel to the second direction to the center of each of the nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Katayama, Shohei Koide, Keita Sugiura, Keita Hirai
  • Patent number: 11247460
    Abstract: A liquid discharging head includes: a first member having a surface in which first openings are formed, the first openings arranged in a first direction and communicating with individual channels; a second member disposed at one side in a second direction with respect to the first member, the second member having: a space extending in the first direction and communicating with the first openings; and a second opening disposed at the first side in the second direction with respect to the space and communicating with the space; and a third member disposed between the first member and the second member in the second direction and having a communicating hole extending in the first direction and allowing the first openings to communicate with the space. The third member has a wall dividing the communicating hole into partial holes separated from each other in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keita Sugiura, Shohei Koide, Keita Hirai, Hiroshi Katayama
  • Publication number: 20220024210
    Abstract: There is provide a liquid discharge head including: a supply manifold; a feedback manifold; and a plurality of individual flow channels having: a supply portion, a descender portion, and a feedback portion. The supply manifold has a plurality of supply ports, and the feedback manifold has a plurality of feedback ports. At least part of the supply manifold overlaps with the feedback manifold in the second direction. The plurality of pressure chambers have first pressure chambers forming a first pressure chamber array and second pressure chambers forming a second pressure chamber array. The first pressure chamber array is arranged at one side, of the supply manifold, in a third direction and the second pressure chamber array is arranged at the other side, of the supply manifold, in the third direction. The first pressure chamber array and the second pressure chamber array are connected to the supply manifold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Shohei Koide, Keita Hirai, Keita Sugiura, Hiroshi Katayama
  • Patent number: 11214063
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head including: first and second common channels extending in a first direction; and a plurality of individual channels each including: a supplying part, a descender part, and a returning part. The returning part includes: a throttle part and a wide part. Each of a plurality of nozzles is located at a position at which each of the plurality of nozzles overlaps with the wide part in a second direction. At a throttle-starting position which is a boundary between the throttle part and the wide part, a length in the second direction of the throttle part and a length in the second direction of the wide part are same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Katayama, Jiro Yamamoto, Keita Sugiura, Shotaro Kanzaki, Taisuke Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20210402774
    Abstract: A liquid discharging head is provided with: individual channels; a first common channel; and a second common channel. The individual channels include: first individual channels which have first pressure chambers and which are aligned in a second direction to form a first individual channel array, and second individual channels which have second pressure chambers and which are aligned in the second direction to form a second individual channel array; the first individual channel array and the second individual channel array are arranged in a third direction. The first common channel communicates with both of the first individual channels and the second individual channels; and the first pressure chambers and the second pressure chambers do not overlap with the second common channel in a first direction, and do not overlap with each other in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroshi Katayama, Shotaro Kanzaki, Jiro Yamamoto, Keita Sugiura, Taisuke Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20210402773
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharging head including: a pressure chamber configured to apply a pressure to a liquid so as to discharge the liquid from a nozzle; a descender arranged to overlap, in a plan view, with the nozzle and communicating the pressure chamber and the nozzle with each other; at least one return throttle channel connected to the descender; and a return manifold which communicates with the at least one return throttle channel and which is configured to receive the liquid not having been discharged from the nozzle. A cross section of the descender orthogonal to a depth direction of the descender is a non-circular shape having a major axis and a minor axis. The at least one return throttle channel is connected to at least one of a first end side of the minor axis and a second end side of the minor axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Keita Sugiura, Jiro Yamamoto, Shotaro Kanzaki, Taisuke Mizuno, Hiroshi Katayama
  • Publication number: 20210403689
    Abstract: Resin molded body obtained from a resin composition containing thermoplastic resin, flame retardant, and metal fiber. The molded body contains from 15 to 30 mass % of flame retardant and from 2.5 to 7.5 mass % of metal fiber, the remainder being thermoplastic resin. The molded body has a determination result of V-0 or V-1 in a burning test using the UL 94 V test method. The molded body satisfies the following: a thickness of the resin molded body is from 1.5 to 8.0 mm; the molded body self-extinguishes within five minutes after a burning test; the molded body does not have a hole after burning; and the molded body has an electromagnetic wave shielding property of more than 30 dB using a KEC method electric field in a frequency range from 1 to 100 MHz.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroshi KATAYAMA, Takafumi UEDA
  • Publication number: 20210402775
    Abstract: A liquid discharging head includes: individual channels; a first common channel; and a second common channel Each of the plurality of individual channels includes: a pressure chamber, a nozzle, a connecting channel, a first communicating channel, and two second communicating channels. A first vector of the first communicating channel has an orientation from one end to the other end of the first communicating channel. Respective second vectors of the two second communicating channels have orientations, each of the orientations being from one end to the other end of one of the two second communicating channels along an extending direction of the two second communicating channels. The first communicating channel is arranged, with respect to the nozzle, on one side in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and the two second communicating channels are arranged, with respect to the nozzle, on the other side in the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroshi Katayama, Shotaro Kanzaki, Jiro Yamamoto, Keita Sugiura, Taisuke Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20210394514
    Abstract: In a liquid ejection head, an ejection pressure is applied to a pressure chamber for liquid ejection from a nozzle. A descender extends in a first direction and includes a first end connected to the pressure chamber and a second end. A communication passage is connected to the second end, extends in a second direction crossing the first direction, and has a first dimension in the first direction. The nozzle is positioned at the communication passage such that a shortest distance between an outer periphery thereof and a center of the second end is greater than 0.5 times a second dimension of the second end in the second direction. When viewed in the first direction, the center of the second end and a center of a cross-section defined by the nozzle to be orthogonal to an extending direction of the nozzle intersect an axis of the communication passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Jiro Yamamoto, Shohei Koide, Keita Hirai, Keita Sugiura, Hiroshi Katayama
  • Publication number: 20210371623
    Abstract: Provided is an electromagnetic wave shielding and absorbing molded article which has an excellent shielding property and absorbency of electromagnetic waves of specific frequencies. The electromagnetic wave shielding and absorbing molded article includes a thermoplastic resin composition containing a thermoplastic resin and carbon fibers. The carbon fibers have a weighted average fiber length in the molded article in a range from 0.05 to 8.0 mm, and the content ratio of the carbon fibers in the molded article is from 0.05 to 45 mass %. The electromagnetic wave shielding and absorbing molded article has a thickness from 0.01 mm to 5 mm, a shielding property of 10 dB or greater and an absorbency of 5% or greater for electromagnetic waves having any frequency in a frequency domain from 59 GHz to 100 GHz.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: DAICEL POLYMER LTD.
    Inventors: Takafumi UEDA, Hirotomo KATANO, Hiroshi KATAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210354459
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a supply manifold, a return manifold, a plurality of individual channels, and a connecting throttle channel. The supply manifold includes a supply port through which liquid is supplied from an exterior. The return manifold includes a return port through which liquid is discharged to the exterior. Each individual channel is connected, at an upstream end thereof, to the supply manifold and, at a downstream end thereof, to the return manifold. Each individual channel communicates with a corresponding one of nozzles and includes an individual throttle channel Through the connecting throttle channel, adjacent ones of the individual throttle channels communicate with each other. The connecting throttle channel has a channel resistance less than or equal to a channel resistance of each individual throttle channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Keita Hirai, Shohei Koide, Keita Sugiura, Hiroshi Katayama
  • Publication number: 20210340356
    Abstract: A self-extinguishing resin molded body obtained from a resin composition containing a polyolefin resin (A), a phosphorus-based flame retardant (B), and a glass fiber (C), wherein the self-extinguishing resin molded body contains from 15 to 30 mass % of the phosphorus-based flame retardant (B) and from 5 to 50 mass % of the glass fiber (C); and the self-extinguishing resin molded body satisfies the following (I) to (III). (I) A thickness of the self-extinguishing resin molded body is from 1.5 to 8.0 mm. (II) The self-extinguishing resin molded body self-extinguishes within 2 minutes after the completion of a burning test using burning test method E as described below. (III) The self-extinguishing resin molded body does not have a hole after being subjected to a burning test using burning test method E as described below. Burning test method E: A plaque (150×150×2.0 mm) made of the molded body described above is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroshi KATAYAMA, Fumitake UTSUMI, Takuhiro KOKETSU, Kota FUJIWARA