Patents by Inventor Hisashi Taniguchi

Hisashi Taniguchi 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: 20230341806
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member, a charging member, a developing member, a cleaning member, an accommodating portion, and a controller capable of executing an image forming operation and a supplying operation for supplying a metal soap, accommodated in the accommodating portion, onto a surface of the image bearing member by the developing member. The controller carries out control so that when the supplying operation is executed, a surface moving speed of the image bearing member is higher than a surface moving speed of the image bearing member when the image forming operation is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: SHINICHI AGATA, HISASHI TANIGUCHI, KEITARO NAKATA, TAKUTO KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230091090
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprising: an image bearing member, a developing member that forms a toner image with a toner including a metal soap having a polarity opposite to that of the toner, a supply member that supplies the toner to the developing member, and a control unit that executes a metal soap supply operation of supplying the metal soap from the developing member to the image bearing member when an operation other than the image forming operation is executed, wherein the metal soap supply operation includes a first mode and a second mode, and a potential difference between the supply member and the developing member, which causes an electrostatic force in the direction from the supply member to the developing member to act on the metal soap, is smaller in the metal soap supply operation in the second mode than in the first mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Hisashi Taniguchi, Bunro Noguchi, Shinichi Agata, Kodai Hayashi, Keitaro Nakata
  • Publication number: 20230093245
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a development roller configured to supply developer to the photosensitive drum, a transfer roller configured to transfer a developer image formed on the photosensitive drum to a recording material, and a cleaning roller being in contact with the photosensitive drum, configured to clean a part of the recording material adhered to the photosensitive drum, wherein the diameter of the transfer roller is greater than the diameter of the development roller and the diameter of the cleaning roller is greater than the diameter of the development roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Atsushi Toda, Hisashi Taniguchi, Bunro Noguchi, Shunsuke Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11526115
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a development roller configured to supply developer to the photosensitive drum, a transfer roller configured to transfer a developer image formed on the photosensitive drum to a recording material, and a cleaning roller being in contact with the photosensitive drum, configured to clean a part of the recording material adhered to the photosensitive drum, wherein a diameter of the transfer roller is greater than a diameter of the development roller and the diameter of the transfer roller is greater than a diameter of the cleaning roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Toda, Hisashi Taniguchi, Bunro Noguchi, Shunsuke Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20220324666
    Abstract: A printing apparatus, in a case of performing double-sided printing on a plurality of sheets, performs an overlap reversing operation by controlling a first sheet to stay in a reversing path to position at least a trailing edge of the first sheet relative to a second direction in a conveying path when conveying the first sheet to the reversing path after completion of a printing operation on a first surface of the first sheet, and controls the reversing roller to convey the first sheet and a second sheet fed by a feed roller next to the first sheet, in a state in which the first sheet staying in the reversing path and a leading edge of the second sheet relative to the second direction overlap each other, after completion of the printing operation on a first surface of the second sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventor: Hisashi Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20220236661
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, a charging member for charging the photosensitive member, a cleaning member that comes into contact with the charging member and moves relative to the charging member to clean the charging member, an opening/closing member for exposing an inside of the apparatus, and a driving mechanism that moves the charging member and the cleaning member relative to each other in association with opening/closing of the opening/closing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Bunro Noguchi, Hisashi Taniguchi, Atsushi Toda, Shunsuke Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20220236684
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a conveyance apparatus whose detection unit of a printing medium is unlikely to be damaged. One embodiment of the present invention is a conveyance apparatus including: a first guide that is fixed to a main body; a second guide capable of moving to a position at which the second guide forms, together with the first guide, a conveyance path through which a printing medium is conveyed and a position at which the second guide opens the conveyance path; a first lever that is provided to the main body and which detects whether or not the printing medium exists in the conveyance path; and a second lever that shields light, wherein the first lever and the second lever can swing integrally or independently in accordance with the position of the second guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Hisashi Taniguchi, Motoyuki Taguchi
  • Patent number: 11396435
    Abstract: A printing apparatus, in a case of performing double-sided printing on a plurality of sheets, performs an overlap reversing operation by controlling a first sheet to stay in a reversing path to position at least a trailing edge of the first sheet relative to a second direction in a conveying path when conveying the first sheet to the reversing path after completion of a printing operation on a first surface of the first sheet, and controls the reversing roller to convey the first sheet and a second sheet fed by a feed roller next to the first sheet, in a state in which the first sheet in the reversing path and a leading edge of the second sheet relative to the second direction overlap each other, after completion of the printing operation on a first surface of the second sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hisashi Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11333992
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, a charging member for charging the photosensitive member, a cleaning member that comes into contact with the charging member and moves relative to the charging member to clean the charging member, an opening/closing member for exposing an inside of the apparatus, and a driving mechanism that moves the charging member and the cleaning member relative to each other in association with opening/closing of the opening/closing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Bunro Noguchi, Hisashi Taniguchi, Atsushi Toda, Shunsuke Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20220082987
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a development roller configured to supply developer to the photosensitive drum, a transfer roller configured to transfer a developer image formed on the photosensitive drum to a recording material, and a cleaning roller being in contact with the photosensitive drum, configured to clean a part of the recording material adhered to the photosensitive drum, wherein the diameter of the transfer roller is greater than the diameter of the development roller and the diameter of the cleaning roller is greater than the diameter of the development roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Atsushi Toda, Hisashi Taniguchi, Bunro Noguchi, Shunsuke Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11209768
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a development roller configured to supply developer to the photosensitive drum, a transfer roller configured to transfer a developer image formed on the photosensitive drum to a recording material, and a cleaning roller being in contact with the photosensitive drum, configured to clean a part of the recording material adhered to the photosensitive drum, wherein the diameter of the transfer roller is greater than the diameter of the development roller and the diameter of the cleaning roller is greater than the diameter of the development roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Toda, Hisashi Taniguchi, Bunro Noguchi, Shunsuke Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20210389689
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, a charging member for charging the photosensitive member, a cleaning member that comes into contact with the charging member and moves relative to the charging member to clean the charging member, an opening/closing member for exposing an inside of the apparatus, and a driving mechanism that moves the charging member and the cleaning member relative to each other in association with opening/closing of the opening/closing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Bunro Noguchi, Hisashi Taniguchi, Atsushi Toda, Shunsuke Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20210302902
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a development roller configured to supply developer to the photosensitive drum, a transfer roller configured to transfer a developer image formed on the photosensitive drum to a recording material, and a cleaning roller being in contact with the photosensitive drum, configured to clean a part of the recording material adhered to the photosensitive drum, wherein the diameter of the transfer roller is greater than the diameter of the development roller and the diameter of the cleaning roller is greater than the diameter of the development roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi Toda, Hisashi Taniguchi, Bunro Noguchi, Shunsuke Matsushita
  • Patent number: 10974526
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a feeding roller configured to feed sheets, including at least a preceding sheet and a succeeding sheet, a conveyance roller configured to convey the sheets fed by the feeding roller, and a printing unit configured to print on at least one sheet, of the sheets conveyed by the conveyance roller. A conveyance control unit controls the conveying of the sheets by the conveyance roller to form an overlap state, in which a leading edge of the succeeding sheet overlaps with the preceding sheet. In a case in which the conveyance roller conveys the succeeding sheet to a printing start position at which a printing operation is started by the printing unit, and the conveyance control unit forms the overlap state, the printing unit is configured to print on an overlapping area in which the preceding sheet and the succeeding sheet overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hisashi Taniguchi, Syunichi Kunihiro
  • Patent number: 10866539
    Abstract: A unit includes: a conveying member that conveys developer; a frame that stores the developer and includes a first chamber storing the conveying member, a second chamber, a first opening connecting the first chamber and the second chamber, and through which the developer is passed, and a second opening connecting the interior of the second chamber and the exterior of the frame in an orthogonal direction that is orthogonal to a direction of a rotation axis line of the conveying member; and a filter that allows air to pass the second opening and restricts the developer from passing the second opening, and is fixed to the frame, wherein the frame is displaceable with respect to an apparatus main body in a state where the unit is attached to the apparatus main body, and the filter is displaced with respect to the apparatus main body by the displacement of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisashi Taniguchi, Takayoshi Kihara, Shuhei Kawasaki, Shota Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10656554
    Abstract: A control unit of an image forming apparatus controls a developer supply amount per unit time in a coating agent removal sequence based on information about a driven amount of an image-bearing member unit acquired from a first memory of the image-bearing member unit via a communication unit, and information about a driven amount of a developing unit acquired from a second memory of the developing unit via the communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hisashi Taniguchi, Shunsuke Matsushita, Shuhei Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20200122517
    Abstract: Provided is a tire in which a first intermediate land portion 3b of most vehicle-installed outside includes a sipe extending in a tire width direction, the sipe comprises a first sipe So that communicates with a circumferential groove 2a adjacent to a vehicle-installed outside of the first intermediate land portion 3b, and terminates in the first intermediate land portion 3b, and a second sipe Si that communicates with a circumferential groove 2b adjacent to a vehicle-installed inside of the first intermediate land portion 3b, and terminates in the first intermediate land portion 3b, the first sipes So and the second sipes Si are alternately present in a tire circumferential direction, and a sipe width of the first sipe So is larger than a sipe width of the second sipe Si.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hisashi TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200024092
    Abstract: A printing apparatus, in a case of performing double-sided printing on a plurality of sheets, performs an overlap reversing operation by controlling a first sheet to stay in a reversing path to position at least a trailing edge of the first sheet in a second direction in a conveying path when conveying the first sheet to the reversing path after completion of a printing operation on a first surface of the first sheet, and controls the reversing roller to convey the first sheet and a second sheet fed by a feed roller next to the first sheet, in a state in which the first sheet staying in the reversing path and a leading edge of the second sheet in the second direction overlap each other, after completion of the printing operation on a first surface of the second sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventor: Hisashi Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20190332030
    Abstract: A control unit of an image forming apparatus controls a developer supply amount per unit time in a coating agent removal sequence based on information about a driven amount of an image-bearing member unit acquired from a first memory of the image-bearing member unit via a communication unit, and information about a driven amount of a developing unit acquired from a second memory of the developing unit via the communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Hisashi Taniguchi, Shunsuke Matsushita, Shuhei Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20190224996
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a feeding roller configured to feed sheets, including at least a preceding sheet and a succeeding sheet, a conveyance roller configured to convey the sheets fed by the feeding roller, and a printing unit configured to print on at least one sheet, of the sheets conveyed by the conveyance roller. A conveyance control unit controls the conveying of the sheets by the conveyance roller to form an overlap state, in which a leading edge of the succeeding sheet overlaps with the preceding sheet. In a case in which the conveyance roller conveys the succeeding sheet to a printing start position at which a printing operation is started by the printing unit, and the conveyance control unit forms the overlap state, the printing unit is configured to print on an overlapping area in which the preceding sheet and the succeeding sheet overlap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Hisashi Taniguchi, Syunichi Kunihiro