Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Inobe

Hiroyuki Inobe 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: 9872407
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including a cover made of a material which is transparent to at least UV, and black printing which is impervious to UV and is applied on a peripheral edge portion of the cover. A cover-bonding portion has an overflow prevention recess into which a UV-curing adhesive applied between the cover-bonding portion and the cover flows. Emitted UV is reflected by a surface of the overflow prevention recess and caused to reach space which is located inward relative to the black printing and between a backside of the peripheral edge portion of the cover and the cover-bonding portion, thereby curing the UV-curing adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Inobe, Hiroshi Tashiro
  • Publication number: 20170196108
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including a cover made of a material which is transparent to at least UV, and black printing which is impervious to UV and is applied on a peripheral edge portion of the cover. A cover-bonding portion has an overflow prevention recess into which a UV-curing adhesive applied between the cover-bonding portion and the cover flows. Emitted UV is reflected by a surface of the overflow prevention recess and caused to reach space which is located inward relative to the black printing and between a backside of the peripheral edge portion of the cover and the cover-bonding portion, thereby curing the UV-curing adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroyuki INOBE, Hiroshi TASHIRO
  • Publication number: 20060178118
    Abstract: A communication device includes a first housing having a first substrate and a second housing having a second substrate, wherein the first substrate and the second substrate are connected by a signal wire including a plurality of thin electric wires, each of which is made of a conductor covered with an insulator, the plurality of thin electric wires forming the signal wire are tied in a bundle at a center portion except the ends thereof and covered with a ground wire mesh made of a plurality of conductive wires knitted into a mesh structure and the ends of the ground wire mesh are connected to the first substrate and the second substrate, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Publication date: August 10, 2006
    Inventors: Hideo Yoshida, Hiroyuki Inobe, Sunao Kajihara
  • Patent number: 5322269
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for feeding sheets separately, the apparatus comprises a feed unit disposed over a stack of sheets for causing a conveyance force upon the uppermost of the stack thereby to feed the uppermost sheet from the stack with the conveyance force being directed in a sheet path direction. The feed unit has an alternating charged pattern on a surface thereof. The apparatus further comprises a separation unit disposed opposite to the feed unit so as to form a sheet path in association with the feed unit for causing a preventive force onto an under face of the fed sheet thereby to prevent the sheet from being fed. The preventive force is set to be less than the conveyance force and greater than a friction force between sheets. The separation unit has another alternating charged pattern on a surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1994
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriaki Fukube, Katsumi Kurihara, Hiroshi Tanabe, Hiroyuki Inobe, Hiroshi Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 5316282
    Abstract: A sheet feeding and separting device incorporated in image forming equipment for feeding sheets one by one from a sheet stack while preventing two or more sheets from being fed together as far as possible and, when a plurality of sheets are accidentally fed together, surely separating one of them from the others. A pick-up member is implemented as an endless dielectric belt. An AC power source forms a charge pattern on the belt via an electrode. As a result, the belt retains a sheet by attraction and transports it due to the Maxwell stress generated in the sheet. When a plurality of sheets are fed together, an arresting member which faces the belt separates one of them from the others. Alternatively, a charge pattern may be formed on the surface of the arresting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1994
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriaki Fukube, Katsumi Kurihara, Satoshi Takano, Hiroshi Tanabe, Hiroshi Fujiwara, Kazunori Bannai, Hiroyuki Inobe
  • Patent number: 5219154
    Abstract: A sheet feeding and separating device incorporated in image forming equipment for feeding sheets one by one from a sheet stack while preventing two or more sheets from being fed together as far as possible and, when a plurality of sheets are accidentally fed together, surely separating one of them from the others. A pick-up member is implemented as an endless dielectric belt. An AC power source forms a charge pattern on the belt via an electrode. As a result, the belt retains a sheet by attraction and transports it due to the Maxwell stress generated in the sheet. When a plurality of sheets are fed together, an arresting member which faces the belt separates one of them from the others. Alternatively, a charge pattern may be formed on the surface of the arresting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1993
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriaki Fukube, Katsumi Kurihara, Satoshi Takano, Hiroshi Tanabe, Hiroshi Fujiwara, Kazunori Bannai, Hiroyuki Inobe