Patents by Inventor Hiroyoshi Iwayama

Hiroyoshi Iwayama 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: 20240053997
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that can eliminate strangeness given to a user due to mismatch of display languages of applications in changing an application screen during application cooperation. The information processing apparatus allows change of a language setting for each application after its installation. The information processing apparatus includes a request acceptor that accepts an activation request for a second application on a first application that has already installed in the information processing apparatus, a storing unit that stores a language setting of the first application into an information sharing area that is available during operations of both the first and second applications, and a change unit that obtains the language setting of the first application from the information sharing area and changes a language setting of the second application to the obtained language setting of the first application in activating the second application in response to the activation request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventor: HIROYOSHI IWAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230100389
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide UI display that secures the visual recognizability of a user even in a case where the number of characters to be displayed is large. One embodiment of the present invention is a control method of an information processing apparatus, the method including: a specification step of specifying notification contents; and a notification step of performing, based on at least one of a number of line feeds included in the specified notification contents and a number of characters included in the specified notification contents, processing for notifying the specified notification contents by a predetermined notification method, wherein the predetermined notification method is a notification method of displaying, after a first portion of the specified notification contents is displayed and the display of the first portion is terminated, a second portion different from the first portion of the specified notification contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventor: Hiroyoshi Iwayama
  • Patent number: 11140281
    Abstract: A method of a terminal apparatus includes displaying, in a case where notification information is received in a state where a predetermined program is not operating in the foreground, a first notification region including a message that is based on message information included in the notification information, and not including information that is based on specific information included in the notification information, on a display unit in a state where the predetermined program is not operating in the foreground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyoshi Iwayama
  • Publication number: 20200304654
    Abstract: A method of a terminal apparatus includes displaying, in a case where notification information is received in a state where a predetermined program is not operating in the foreground, a first notification region including a message that is based on message information included in the notification information, and not including information that is based on specific information included in the notification information, on a display unit in a state where the predetermined program is not operating in the foreground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventor: Hiroyoshi Iwayama
  • Patent number: 10234806
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum for bearing a developer, a charging roller that comes into contact with the photosensitive drum at a different velocity and that charges the photosensitive drum, a transfer roller that transfers a developer image on the photosensitive drum to a recording material, and a developing sleeve that supplies a developer to the photosensitive drum and that recovers a developer on the photosensitive drum after transfer. A detecting device detects information relating to injection charging, and a controller controls an amount of the fogging developer during image formation according to information detected by the detecting device while suppressing the amount of the developer recovered in the developing sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Iwayama, Satoshi Sunahara
  • Patent number: 10209668
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus in which a developer bearing member is disposed below a cleaning member, which cleans a charging member, so as to overlap with the cleaning member when viewed in a vertical direction and includes a base body and an elastic layer covering the base body and having a width in a longitudinal direction of the developer bearing member that accommodates the entire region of the cleaning member in the longitudinal direction. In the longitudinal direction, the cleaning member is disposed at a position where the entire region thereof in the longitudinal direction is accommodated in the width of the elastic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihisa Matsukawa, Toshiki Okamura, Kuniaki Tamagaki, Takanori Watanabe, Hiroyoshi Iwayama, Makoto Tokudome, Hideo Kihara, Naoki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10095150
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a charging member, a charging voltage source, an electrostatic image forming portion, a developing device, a developing voltage source, a transfer portion, a transfer voltage source, and a controller. During image formation, the toner remaining on the image bearing member after transfer is collected into the developing device while forming an image. In a cleaning operation performed during non-image formation, while rotating the image bearing member, the controller transfers the toner from the charging member onto the image bearing member, passes the toner through the developing portion in an urged state, reverses a charge polarity of the toner to a normal polarity at a charging portion, and then transfers the toner reversed in charge polarity from the image bearing member onto the developing member at the developing portion to collect the toner in the developing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Hiramatsu, Yusuke Usui, Kuniaki Tamagaki, Hiroyoshi Iwayama
  • Publication number: 20180239287
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a photosensitive drum for bearing a developer; a charging roller that comes into contact with the photosensitive drum at a different velocity and that charges the photosensitive drum; a transfer roller that transfers a developer image on the photosensitive drum to a recording material; a developing sleeve that supplies a developer to the photosensitive drum and that recovers a developer on the photosensitive drum after transfer; detecting device for detecting information relating to injection charging; and a controller that, based on the information, controls an amount of a fogging developer, wherein the controller controls the amount of the fogging developer during image formation according to information detected by the detecting device while suppressing the amount of the developer recovered in the developing sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Iwayama, Satoshi Sunahara
  • Publication number: 20180224799
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus in which a developer bearing member is disposed below a cleaning member, which cleans a charging member, so as to overlap with the cleaning member when viewed in a vertical direction and includes a base body and an elastic layer covering the base body and having a width in a longitudinal direction of the developer bearing member that accommodates the entire region of the cleaning member in the longitudinal direction. In the longitudinal direction, the cleaning member is disposed at a position where the entire region thereof in the longitudinal direction is accommodated in the width of the elastic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Akihisa Matsukawa, Toshiki Okamura, Kuniaki Tamagaki, Takanori Watanabe, Hiroyoshi Iwayama, Makoto Tokudome, Hideo Kihara, Naoki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9971298
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus in which a developer bearing member is disposed below a cleaning member, which cleans a charging member, so as to overlap with the cleaning member when viewed in a vertical direction and includes a base body and an elastic layer covering the base body and having a width in a longitudinal direction of the developer bearing member that accommodates the entire region of the cleaning member in the longitudinal direction. In the longitudinal direction, the cleaning member is disposed at a position where the entire region thereof in the longitudinal direction is accommodated in the width of the elastic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihisa Matsukawa, Toshiki Okamura, Kuniaki Tamagaki, Takanori Watanabe, Hiroyoshi Iwayama, Makoto Tokudome, Hideo Kihara, Naoki Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20180024495
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus in which a developer bearing member is disposed below a cleaning member, which cleans a charging member, so as to overlap with the cleaning member when viewed in a vertical direction and includes a base body and an elastic layer covering the base body and having a width in a longitudinal direction of the developer bearing member that accommodates the entire region of the cleaning member in the longitudinal direction. In the longitudinal direction, the cleaning member is disposed at a position where the entire region thereof in the longitudinal direction is accommodated in the width of the elastic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Akihisa Matsukawa, Toshiki Okamura, Kuniaki Tamagaki, Takanori Watanabe, Hiroyoshi Iwayama, Makoto Tokudome, Hideo Kihara, Naoki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9727002
    Abstract: Fluctuations in chargeability in an initial state are expected to be small. If a charging member is new, an image forming apparatus performs a supply operation for supplying a developer or a lubricant prior to an image forming operation in such a manner that the developer or the lubricant adheres to a surface of the charging member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Iwayama, Takashi Hiramatsu, Akihisa Matsukawa, Satoshi Sunahara
  • Patent number: 9563144
    Abstract: A charging member includes a force receiving portion that receives a force in a direction in which the charging member is moved in a longitudinal direction of the charging member while rotating. The charging member is in contact with a brush member at a place different from the place of the force receiving portion. A component of the force received by the charging member at the force receiving portion in the longitudinal direction and a component of a force received by the charging member resulting from tilting of bristles in the brush member are in the same direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Motonari Ito, Hiroyoshi Iwayama, Takashi Hiramatsu, Yu Fukasawa
  • Publication number: 20160342104
    Abstract: Fluctuations in chargeability in an initial state are expected to be small. If a charging member is new, an image forming apparatus performs a supply operation for supplying a developer or a lubricant prior to an image forming operation in such a manner that the developer or the lubricant adheres to a surface of the charging member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Iwayama, Takashi Hiramatsu, Akihisa Matsukawa, Satoshi Sunahara
  • Patent number: 9465322
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member; a charging member for electrically charging the image bearing member in contact with the image bearing member; and a developing member for supplying developer in contact with the image bearing member. The developer remaining on the image bearing member after transfer is collected by the developing member. A Martens hardness HMR of a surface of the charging member and a Martens hardness HMD of a surface of the developer satisfy the following relationship: HMD>HMR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihisa Matsukawa, Yusuke Usui, Hiroyoshi Iwayama, Takanori Watanabe, Naoki Okamoto, Kazuhiro Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 9442454
    Abstract: Fluctuations in chargeability in an initial state are expected to be small. If a charging member is new, an image forming apparatus performs a supply operation for supplying a developer or a lubricant prior to an image forming operation in such a manner that the developer or the lubricant adheres to a surface of the charging member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Iwayama, Takashi Hiramatsu, Akihisa Matsukawa, Satoshi Sunahara
  • Publication number: 20160259260
    Abstract: A charging member includes a force receiving portion that receives a force in a direction in which the charging member is moved in a longitudinal direction of the charging member while rotating. The charging member is in contact with a brush member at a place different from the place of the force receiving portion. A component of the force received by the charging member at the force receiving portion in the longitudinal direction and a component of a force received by the charging member resulting from tilting of bristles in the brush member are in the same direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Motonari Ito, Hiroyoshi Iwayama, Takashi Hiramatsu, Yu Fukasawa
  • Publication number: 20160097986
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a charging member, a charging voltage source, an electrostatic image forming portion, a developing device, a developing voltage source, a transfer portion, a transfer voltage source, and a controller. During image formation, the toner remaining on the image bearing member after transfer is collected into the developing device while forming an image. In a cleaning operation performed during non-image formation, while rotating the image bearing member, the controller transfers the toner from the charging member onto the image bearing member, passes the toner through the developing portion in an urged state, reverses a charge polarity of the toner to a normal polarity at a charging portion, and then transfers the toner reversed in charge polarity from the image bearing member onto the developing member at the developing portion to collect the toner in the developing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Takashi Hiramatsu, Yusuke Usui, Kuniaki Tamagaki, Hiroyoshi Iwayama
  • Publication number: 20160026118
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member; a charging member for electrically charging the image bearing member in contact with the image bearing member; and a developing member for supplying developer in contact with the image bearing member. The developer remaining on the image bearing member after transfer is collected by the developing member. A Martens hardness HMR of a surface of the charging member and a Martens hardness HMD of a surface of the developer satisfy the following relationship: HMD>HMR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Akihisa Matsukawa, Yusuke Usui, Hiroyoshi Iwayama, Takanori Watanabe, Naoki Okamoto, Kazuhiro Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20150362885
    Abstract: Fluctuations in chargeability in an initial state are expected to be small. If a charging member is new, an image forming apparatus performs a supply operation for supplying a developer or a lubricant prior to an image forming operation in such a manner that the developer or the lubricant adheres to a surface of the charging member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Iwayama, Takashi Hiramatsu, Akihisa Matsukawa, Satoshi Sunahara