Patents by Inventor Hirotake Watanabe
Hirotake Watanabe 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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Publication number: 20240101372Abstract: A medium transport device includes a first transporter configured to transport a medium by nipping the medium along with rotation, a second transporter configured to transport the medium and disposed on an upstream side of the first transporter in a transport direction of the medium, a first adjuster configured to adjust a position of the medium in a width direction by moving the first transporter and the second transporter in the width direction of the medium with the medium nipped by the first transporter and the second transporter, and a second adjuster configured to adjust a contact pressure of the first transporter for the medium and a contact pressure of the second transporter for the medium based on resistance caused when the medium is moved in the width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Hirotake EGUCHI, Yasunobu GOTO, Yoshinori KOIKE, Yuki KAWAZOE, Shuhei KOBORI, Kiyoshi WATANABE
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Publication number: 20240101378Abstract: A sheet transporting device includes: a skew correcting component configured to correct any skew of a sheet by executing speed-gap driving in which first and second transporting components that are arranged at respective positions in a direction intersecting a direction of sheet transport are driven for a predetermined time period with a speed gap between the first and second transporting components; and a changing component configured to change, with reference to a characteristic relevant to sheet transport, a state of the speed-gap driving of the skew correcting component.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yoshinori KOIKE, Hirotake EGUCHI, Yasunobu GOTO, Kiyoshi WATANABE, Yuki KAWAZOE, Shuhei KOBORI
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Publication number: 20240101381Abstract: A sheet transporting device includes first and second position correcting components provided at respective positions in a direction of sheet transport and each being configured to correct a position of a sheet in a direction intersecting the direction of sheet transport by being shifted in the direction intersecting the direction of sheet transport while holding the sheet, and a changing component capable of changing an amount of correction of the position of the sheet individually for the first and second position correcting components.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yasunobu GOTO, Kiyoshi WATANABE, Yoshinori KOIKE, Hirotake EGUCHI, Yuki KAWAZOE, Shuhei KOBORI
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Patent number: 8325368Abstract: A print information conversion apparatus is provided, the print information conversion apparatus including: a print information acquiring portion that acquires print information in a page description language format; a conversion portion that converts the acquired print information in the page description language format into electronic document information in an electronic document format; an addition portion that adds restoration information to the electronic document information, the restoration information being used for restoring nonreversible information that is contained in the print information in the page description language format and that is not reversibly convertible to the electronic document information; and a print information generating portion that generates print information based on the electronic document information and the restoration information added to the electronic document information.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2009Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hirotake Watanabe
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Publication number: 20100195142Abstract: A print information conversion apparatus is provided, the print information conversion apparatus including: a print information acquiring portion that acquires print information in a page description language format; a conversion portion that converts the acquired print information in the page description language format into electronic document information in an electronic document format; an addition portion that adds restoration information to the electronic document information, the restoration information being used for restoring nonreversible information that is contained in the print information in the page description language format and that is not reversibly convertible to the electronic document information; and a print information generating portion that generates print information based on the electronic document information and the restoration information added to the electronic document information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2009Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventor: Hirotake WATANABE
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Patent number: 7124177Abstract: Disclosed is a method for managing a plurality of network devices by management equipment connected to a network, so that an operator can easily distinguish each network device managed by the management equipment at the installation location of the network device. Management equipment (1) performs functions of; automatically assigning and managing the identification information for each plurality of network devices (6-1 to 6-N); visually outputting the identification information assigned by the administrator; and indicating the identification information of network devices (6-1 to 6-N) on a management screen of the management equipment (1) using an identifier which is the same as the identification information. Thus the same identifier is commonly used for both the identifier indicated on the management screen and the identifier displayed on the network device. Thus, at the installation location, the operator can easily recognize the network device indicated on the management screen.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2001Date of Patent: October 17, 2006Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hirotake Watanabe
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Patent number: 6945717Abstract: A controller (4) for controlling a printer engine (7) used to print data on a medium determines an identification number based on received data, and prints the identification number together with print data based on the received data on the medium. Simultaneously, the controller (4) stores therein the identification number and the print data in an HD (6). With the construction, the identification number printed on the medium is inputted in the next and later printing operations. The controller (4) searches the HD (6) to retrieve and print the print data. Therefore, a copy of a quality as high as that of the original document can be produced.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2001Date of Patent: September 20, 2005Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hisao Hata, Hirotake Watanabe
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Publication number: 20040146327Abstract: A controller (4) for controlling a printer engine (7) used to print data on a medium determines an identification number based on received data, and prints the identification number together with print data based on the received data on the medium. Simultaneously, the controller (4) stores therein the identification number and the print data in an HD (6). With the construction, the identification number printed on the medium is inputted in the next and later printing operations. The controller (4) searches the HD (6) to retrieve and print the print data. Therefore, a copy of a quality as high as that of the original document can be produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2004Publication date: July 29, 2004Inventors: Hisao Hata, Hirotake Watanabe
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Publication number: 20020062364Abstract: Disclosed is a method for managing a plurality of network devices by management equipment connected to a network, so that an operator can easily distinguish each network device managed by the management equipment at the installation location of the network device. Management equipment (1) performs functions of; automatically assigning and managing the identification information for each plurality of network devices (6-1 to 6-N); visually outputting the identification information assigned by the administrator; and indicating the identification information of network devices (6-1 to 6-N) on a management screen of the management equipment (1) using an identifier which is the same as the identification information. Thus the same identifier is commonly used for both the identifier indicated on the management screen and the identifier displayed on the network device. Thus, at the installation location, the operator can easily recognize the network device indicated on the management screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2001Publication date: May 23, 2002Applicant: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Hirotake Watanabe
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Patent number: 6273416Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a sheet feeding device and method, and image reader which facilitate setting of a sheet pile, serve to separate and feed a sheet succesfully. The present invention provides a separation gate between draw and separation rollers for achieving a multistage separation. The separation gate is made movable in synchronization with the draw roller so as to maintain a certain separation condition, despite of the draw roller that may descend according to the number of piled sheets.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2000Date of Patent: August 14, 2001Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Hirotake Watanabe, Tamio Amagai