Patents by Inventor Ichiro Kondoh

Ichiro Kondoh 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: 5907752
    Abstract: In an image forming apparatus using a cleaner/toner magazine (CTM) which has a waste toner tank and a fresh toner tank formed integrally with each other, a cleaning device has a cleaning blade which scrapes off toner left on a photoconductive element with an edge thereof. The toner removed by the cleaning blade is magnetically deposited on a rotatable magnet member whose outer periphery is magnetized. A scraper member contacts the magnet member in the waste toner tank and scrapes off the toner from the magnet member which is in rotation. As a result, the toner is collected in a collection space defined in the waste toner tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ichiro Kondoh
  • Patent number: 5691944
    Abstract: In a non-volatile semiconductor memory device having a writing power source voltage which is supplied thereto exceeding a withstand voltage of a field effect transistor, the object of the present invention is to reduce the number of kinds of field effect transistors constituting the non-volatile semiconductor memory device thereby reducing manufacturing cost. In a non-volatile semiconductor memory device which has a writing circuit 125 for controlling a connection of a writing load to a bit line designated by an output of a column decoder 117 in accordance with a signal of a writing data line 114, and a bias circuit 118 for outputting a bias voltage to set a cell writing voltage of a memory cell array by reducing the writing power source voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Ichiro Kondoh
  • Patent number: 5583625
    Abstract: In an image forming apparatus using a cleaner/toner magazine (CTM) which has a waste toner tank and a fresh toner tank formed integrally with each other, a cleaning device has a cleaning blade which scrapes off toner left on a photoconductive element with an edge thereof. The toner removed by the cleaning blade is magnetically deposited on a rotatable magnet member whose outer periphery is magnetized. A scraper member contacts the magnet member in the waste toner tank and scrapes off the toner from the magnet member which is in rotation. As a result, the toner is collected in a collection space defined in the waste toner tank. A shutter can also be provided to prevent toner from flying about via an opening of the collection space. Such a shutter may include a shutter body, a lever operatively connected to the shutter body, and a spring biasing the lever in a direction in which the shutter body closes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ichiro Kondoh