Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Konishi
Hiroyuki Konishi 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: 20240124735Abstract: An object is to obtain an ink set capable of forming images of excellent image quality even when an acidic atmosphere, arising from use of a volatile acid in a pretreatment solution, is present in the vicinity of ink nozzles, etc. As a solution, an ink set containing a pretreatment solution and an ink composition is provided, wherein: the pretreatment solution contains an organic acid having a boiling point of 120° C. or lower at 1 atmospheric pressure; and the ink composition contains a pigment and an alkali-soluble resin having an acid value of 200 mgKOH/g or higher or crosslinked substance thereof accounting for 1.8% by mass or more in the ink composition, and further contains a water-dispersible resin and water.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Hiroyuki KONISHI, Ryuta NODA, Masaki MURAKAMI, Masahiro UEKI, Satoshi HIRAKAWA
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Publication number: 20230406654Abstract: A recording material conveyance apparatus includes a hardware processor and a measurement section. The hardware processor is capable of performing switching control of, in response to, among a plurality of recording material housing sections that house recording materials, a first recording material housing section becoming out of recording material while a recording material fed from the first recording material housing section is being conveyed, selecting a second recording material housing section to cause a recording material housed in the second recording material housing section to be conveyed. In the switching control, the hardware processor selects the second recording material housing section based on a measured physical property value of each of the recording materials of the recording material housing section The measurement section measures the physical property value of each of the recording materials of the recording material housing section.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Syunji SHIMOKAWA, Hiroyuki KONISHI
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Patent number: 11820093Abstract: A hot-press device includes: a heating furnace; a pair of punches which includes an upper punch and a lower punch provided in the heating furnace and vertically facing each other; a lower press ram which is connected to a lower surface of the lower punch; an upper press ram which is connected to an upper surface of the upper punch; and a pressing device which is connected to any one or both of the lower press ram and the upper press ram and presses the punch so that the pair of punches are close to each other, in which the lower press ram and/or the upper press ram includes a plurality of individual press rams which are disposed at intervals, each individual press ram having one end coupled to the pair of punches.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignees: IHI CORPORATION, IHI MACHINERY AND FURNACE CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiro Tanaka, Hideki Kawamoto, Takuma Yoshida, Hiroyuki Konishi
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Patent number: 11721889Abstract: Object: A plurality of problems of an electromagnetic wave transmissive cover to be installed in an electromagnetic wave irradiation direction of a sensor using an electromagnetic wave are simultaneously eliminated. Resolution means: An electromagnetic wave transmissive cover 1 is a member to be installed in an electromagnetic wave irradiation direction of a millimeter wave radar 100 using an electromagnetic wave, and includes a colored resin member 3, a transparent resin member 5, and a transparent heater film 7. The transparent resin member 5 is provided on an opposite side to the millimeter wave radar 100 of the colored resin member 3. The transparent heater film 7 is provided on the opposite side to the millimeter wave radar 100 of the colored resin member 3, includes a wiring pattern formed by copper plating or etching, and has electromagnetic wave transmissivity.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: NISSHA CO., LTD.Inventors: Eiji Kawashima, Hiroyuki Konishi, Yasuhide Fukada, Toshitsugu Fujimura, Toru Okada
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Publication number: 20230212381Abstract: A resin composition comprises: a modified vinyl alcohol-based polymer (A) containing from 1 to 20 mol % of a structural unit represented by a formula (1) below; and a layered inorganic compound (B). Such a resin composition is excellent in water vapor barrier properties, recyclability, and productivity during coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2021Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenichi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Konishi, Akihisa Watajima, Makoto Adachi
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Patent number: 11623998Abstract: An object is to achieve both good washing fastness and texture by combining a urethane resin of high fracture elongation with a small quantity of crosslinking agent. As a means for achieving the object, a white inkjet ink composition for textile printing is provided that contains a white pigment, a water-dispersible urethane resin having reactivity to cationic compounds, a crosslinking agent, a water-soluble organic solvent, and water; wherein the crosslinking agent is contained by 0.02 to 0.15 parts by mass relative to 1 part by mass of the water-dispersible urethane resin, and as the water-soluble organic solvent, a glycol ether that dissolves by 1 to 60 g in 100 g of water is contained.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2018Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: SAKATA INX CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi Sato, Ayumi Minegishi, Hiroyuki Konishi, Ryuta Noda
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Patent number: 11566141Abstract: An object is to achieve both good washing fastness and texture by combining a urethane resin of high fracture elongation with a small quantity of crosslinking agent. As a means for achieving the object, an inkjet ink composition for textile printing is provided that contains a pigment, a water-dispersible resin, a crosslinking agent, and water; wherein, as the water-dispersible resin, a resin of 1200 to 1800% in fracture elongation and 10 to 48 MPa in tensile strength is contained by 1.0 to 3.0 parts by mass relative to 1 part by mass of the pigment, and the crosslinking agent is contained by 0.03 to 0.17 parts by mass relative to 1 part by mass of the water-dispersible resin.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2018Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: SAKATA INX CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi Sato, Hiroyuki Konishi, Ayumi Minegishi, Ryuta Noda
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Publication number: 20220388795Abstract: A paper feed device having regulation plates that are movable on a paper feed tray for loading paper and regulate edges of the paper, includes: a driver that moves the regulation plates; and a hardware processor that acquires paper information corresponding to a characteristic of the loaded paper, and causes the driver to move the regulation plates according to the acquired paper information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventor: Hiroyuki Konishi
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Publication number: 20220267499Abstract: Disclosed is a vinyl alcohol-based block copolymer that is a block copolymer composed of a vinyl alcohol-based polymer block (B-b) and a copolymer block (B-c) comprising a vinyl alcohol-based monomer unit and an acrylic acid-based monomer unit, wherein a content (Z) of the acrylic acid-based monomer unit relative to all monomer units is 0.05 to 20.0 mol %, the block copolymer has a saponification degree of 80 to 99.99 mol %, the block copolymer has a number-average molecular weight (Mna) of 20,000 to 440,000, the block copolymer has a molecular weight distribution (Mwa/Mna) of 1.05 to 1.95, and a ratio (DPb/DPa) of a number-average polymerization degree (DPb) of the vinyl alcohol-based polymer block (B-b) to the number-average polymerization degree (DPa) of the block copolymer is 0.010 to 0.999.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2020Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Takumi TAKAYAMA, Kazutoshi MISHIMA, Hiroyuki KONISHI, Kazuhiko MAEKAWA
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Patent number: 11418668Abstract: An image forming system includes: an image forming apparatus; and a recording material information detecting apparatus provided outside the image forming apparatus, wherein the recording material information detecting apparatus includes a recording material information detector that detects recording material information about a recording material, and the image forming apparatus includes: an image former; an operation detector; and a hardware processor.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2021Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Sayaka Ogasawara, Hiroyuki Konishi
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Patent number: 11359108Abstract: An object is to improve the dispersion stability and discharge stability, while also improving the image quality and various resistance properties of printed matters even when the cohesion promoter contained in the primer ink is small in quantity. As a means to achieve the object, an ink set is provided that comprises: an aqueous inkjet ink composition containing (a) a pigment, (b) a water-soluble organic solvent, (c) water, and (d) a resin emulsion, wherein the pigment (a) has a crosslinked resin layer on its surface; and a primer ink composition containing a cohesion promoter that promotes cohesion of the aforementioned ink composition.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: SAKATA INX CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi Sato, Hiroyuki Konishi, Kazuki Moriyasu
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Patent number: 11261545Abstract: A carbon fiber production method includes a carbon fiber production step including an oxidation step and a carbonization step; and an exhaust gas processing step including a heat exchange step; an external air mixing step; and a mixed external air supplying step in which the mixed external air is supplied to at least one step that uses heated gas in the steps in the carbon fiber production step; and among the exhaust gases, a high heating value exhaust gas having a heating value of 250 kcal/Nm3 or higher is supplied to an inlet side of an exhaust gas combustion apparatus and a low heating value exhaust gas having a heating value lower than 150 kcal/Nm3 is supplied to an outlet side of the exhaust gas combustion apparatus, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Kosuke Taki, Hiroomi Ueda, Hiroyuki Konishi
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Publication number: 20220041877Abstract: An object is to provide an aqueous inkjet ink composition offering excellent high-gap discharge stability, antifouling property, adhesion, drying property, abrasion resistance, discharge stability, and preservation stability, even when printed on nonabsorbent media. As a solution, an aqueous inkjet ink composition is provided that contains a pigment, an alkali-soluble resin, a polyolefin resin emulsion, a basic compound, an aqueous medium, and a surfactant, wherein the glass transition temperature of the alkali-soluble resin is 40 to 100° C., the average grain size of the polyolefin resin emulsion is 5 to 300 nm, the solids content of the polyolefin resin emulsion is 0.5 to 5.0 percent by mass in the aqueous inkjet ink composition, and the surfactant contains at least an acetylenediol-based surfactant.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2019Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: Yoichi SATO, Hiroyuki KONISHI, Kazuki MORIYASU
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Patent number: 11193831Abstract: A method for manufacturing a near-infrared sensor cover includes a film setting step. The film setting step includes setting a heater film on a first molding die and setting a hard coating film on a second molding die. The method for manufacturing a near-infrared sensor cover further includes a base molding step for molding a base including clamping a mold, injecting molten plastic into a gap between the heater film and the hard coating film, and curing the molten plastic.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignees: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD., NISSHA CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji Okumura, Koji Fukagawa, Hiroyuki Konishi, Tatsuo Ito
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Publication number: 20210368053Abstract: An image forming system includes: an image forming apparatus; and a recording material information detecting apparatus provided outside the image forming apparatus, wherein the recording material information detecting apparatus includes a recording material information detector that detects recording material information about a recording material, and the image forming apparatus includes: an image former; an operation detector; and a hardware processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: SAYAKA OGASAWARA, HIROYUKI KONISHI
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Publication number: 20210349414Abstract: There is provided an image forming system that includes an image forming apparatus including an image former that forms an image on a recording material, the image forming system including: recording material storage enabled to store the recording material; a recording material supplier that supplies the recording material from the recording material storage to the image former; a recording material information detection apparatus that is arranged outside the image forming apparatus and detects recording material information of the recording material; and a hardware processor that determines whether or not the recording material detected by the recording material information detection apparatus is settable into the recording material storage on the basis of the recording material information detected by the recording material information detection apparatus and information preset for the recording material storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2021Publication date: November 11, 2021Inventor: HIROYUKI KONISHI
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Patent number: 11157222Abstract: An image forming system includes: an image forming apparatus; a post-processing apparatus that includes post-processors corresponding to at least two post-processes and perform the at least two post-processes stepwise on paper on which an image is formed by the image forming apparatus; a setting receiver that receives post-processing settings corresponding to the at least two post-processes; and a hardware processor that determines whether or not the at least two post-processes are executable based on the post-processing settings corresponding to the at least two post-processes and that, in a case where it is determined that the at least two post-processes are not executable, when a post-processing setting corresponding to one of the at least two post-processes is a setting including numerical value input, provides notification regarding a numerical value input setting change in the post-processing setting corresponding to the one post-processing.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Hiroyuki Konishi
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Publication number: 20210159592Abstract: Object: A plurality of problems of an electromagnetic wave transmissive cover to be installed in an electromagnetic wave irradiation direction of a sensor using an electromagnetic wave are simultaneously eliminated. Resolution means: An electromagnetic wave transmissive cover 1 is a member to be installed in an electromagnetic wave irradiation direction of a millimeter wave radar 100 using an electromagnetic wave, and includes a colored resin member 3, a transparent resin member 5, and a transparent heater film 7. The transparent resin member 5 is provided on an opposite side to the millimeter wave radar 100 of the colored resin member 3. The transparent heater film 7 is provided on the opposite side to the millimeter wave radar 100 of the colored resin member 3, includes a wiring pattern formed by copper plating or etching, and has electromagnetic wave transmissivity.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2019Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: NISSHA CO., LTD.Inventors: Eiji KAWASHIMA, Hiroyuki KONISHI, Yasuhide FUKADA, Toshitsugu FUJIMURA, Toru OKADA
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Publication number: 20210096030Abstract: A method for manufacturing a near-infrared sensor cover includes a film setting step. The film setting step includes setting a heater film on a first molding die and setting a hard coating film on a second molding die. The method for manufacturing a near-infrared sensor cover further includes a base molding step for molding a base including clamping a mold, injecting molten plastic into a gap between the heater film and the hard coating film, and curing the molten plastic.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Koji OKUMURA, Koji FUKAGAWA, Hiroyuki KONISHI, Tatsuo ITO
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Publication number: 20210054540Abstract: A carbon fiber production method includes a carbon fiber production step including an oxidation step and a carbonization step; and an exhaust gas processing step including a heat exchange step; an external air mixing step; and a mixed external air supplying step in which the mixed external air is supplied to at least one step that uses heated gas in the steps in the carbon fiber production step; and among the exhaust gases, a high heating value exhaust gas having a heating value of 250 kcal/Nm3 or higher is supplied to an inlet side of an exhaust gas combustion apparatus and a low heating value exhaust gas having a heating value lower than 150 kcal/Nm3 is supplied to an outlet side of the exhaust gas combustion apparatus, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2018Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventors: Kosuke Taki, Hiroomi Ueda, Hiroyuki Konishi