Patents by Inventor Jiro Minabe

Jiro Minabe 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: 11953308
    Abstract: A light emitting element array includes: a light emitting element group that includes plural light emitting elements; and plural lenses that are provided, corresponding to the plural light emitting elements, on a light emitting surface side of the plural light emitting elements, and that deflects light emitted from the plural light emitting elements according to a positional relation with the plural light emitting elements. Distances between central axes of light emission of the plural light emitting elements and central axes of the plural lenses corresponding to the plural light emitting elements increase from a center side of the light emitting element group toward an end side of the light emitting element group, and a degree of change in the distances decreases from the center side of the light emitting element group toward the end side of the light emitting element group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shigetoshi Nakamura, Kenichi Ohno, Michiaki Murata, Tsutomu Ishii, Jiro Minabe
  • Publication number: 20240087129
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: perform, on image data representing multiple documents, an operation that identifies a segmentation position that segments the documents according to a document unit; and cause a display to display identification results in a display format that is responsive to a certainty factor of the identification results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Jiro Minabe, Tsutomu Ishii, Atsushi Ito
  • Patent number: 11738502
    Abstract: A filament for three-dimensional modeling includes two or more kinds of resins; a fiber; and a compatibilizing agent, and has a sea-island structure including a sea part and island parts, the sea part including at least one kind of the two or more kinds of resins and the island parts including at least one kind of the two kinds of resins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakayama, Taichi Yamada, Kentaro Ageishi, Masayuki Ookoshi, Jiro Minabe
  • Patent number: 11491719
    Abstract: Provided is a shaping apparatus including: a stage; and a delivery unit configured to: deliver and apply a shaping material in which continuous fibers is impregnated with a resin onto the stage; and, configured to change delivery amounts between an inner side and an outer side of a path of the shaping material according to a difference in path lengths between the inner side and the outer side, the difference being generated when an applying direction of the shaping material is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakayama, Taichi Yamada, Jiro Minabe, Kentaro Ageishi
  • Patent number: 11413810
    Abstract: A filament for three-dimensional modeling includes a first resin; a second resin; a fiber; and a compatibilizing agent, wherein a fiber coated with the second resin is dispersed in a matrix formed of the first resin, the compatibilizing agent is interposed between the first resin and the second resin, a thickness of a coating layer formed of the second resin is 0.1 ?m or more and 5 ?m or less, and a content rate of the second resin with respect to a total weight of the first resin, the second resin, and the compatibilizing agent is 30% by weight or more and 50% by weight or less, or 5% by weight or more and 15% by weight or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakayama, Nobuhiro Katsuta, Wataru Suzuki, Jiro Minabe, Taichi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20210299946
    Abstract: A filament for three-dimensional modeling includes a first resin; a second resin; a fiber; and a compatibilizing agent, wherein a fiber coated with the second resin is dispersed in a matrix formed of the first resin, the compatibilizing agent is interposed between the first resin and the second resin, a thickness of a coating layer formed of the second resin is 0.1 ?m or more and 5 ?m or less, and a content rate of the second resin with respect to a total weight of the first resin, the second resin, and the compatibilizing agent is 30% by weight or more and 50% by weight or less, or 5% by weight or more and 15% by weight or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Daisuke NAKAYAMA, Nobuhiro KATSUTA, Wataru SUZUKI, Jiro MINABE, Taichi YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20210245422
    Abstract: A filament for three-dimensional modeling includes two or more kinds of resins; a fiber; and a compatibilizing agent, and has a sea-island structure including a sea part and island parts, the sea part including at least one kind of the two or more kinds of resins and the island parts including at least one kind of the two kinds of resins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke NAKAYAMA, Taichi YAMADA, Kentaro AGEISHI, Masayuki OOKOSHI, Jiro MINABE
  • Publication number: 20200355493
    Abstract: A light emitting element array includes: a light emitting element group that includes plural light emitting elements; and plural lenses that are provided, corresponding to the plural light emitting elements, on a light emitting surface side of the plural light emitting elements, and that deflects light emitted from the plural light emitting elements according to a positional relation with the plural light emitting elements. Distances between central axes of light emission of the plural light emitting elements and central axes of the plural lenses corresponding to the plural light emitting elements increase from a center side of the light emitting element group toward an end side of the light emitting element group, and a degree of change in the distances decreases from the center side of the light emitting element group toward the end side of the light emitting element group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigetoshi NAKAMURA, Kenichi OHNO, Michiaki MURATA, Tsutomu ISHII, Jiro MINABE
  • Publication number: 20200247047
    Abstract: Provided is a shaping apparatus including: a stage; and a delivery unit configured to: deliver and apply a shaping material in which continuous fibers is impregnated with a resin onto the stage; and, configured to change delivery amounts between an inner side and an outer side of a path of the shaping material according to a difference in path lengths between the inner side and the outer side, the difference being generated when an applying direction of the shaping material is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke NAKAYAMA, Taichi YAMADA, Jiro MINABE, Kentaro AGEISHI
  • Publication number: 20200041948
    Abstract: A forming apparatus includes a discharge target device, a reducing device, and a discharge device. The reducing device reduces a section of a linear formation material in which a bundle of continuous fibers has been impregnated with resin. The discharge device moves relative to the discharge target device, discharges to the discharge target device the formation material the section of which has been reduced by the reducing device, and stacks plural layers formed of the formation material having been solidified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro KATSUTA, Jiro MINABE, Daisuke NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 10551543
    Abstract: A light guide device includes a light guide plate that includes a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface in one of which plural light exit portions are provided, that guides light introduced into the light guide plate while reflecting the light between the first surface and the second surface, and that refracts or reflects the guided light so as to cause the light to exit by using the plural light exit portions. The light guide device has an introduction portion that is provided in the light guide plate and that introduces at least part of light incident upon the introduction portion in plural directions in a plane where the light is guided by the light guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Fujimoto, Jiro Minabe, Yasuhiro Ogasawara, Shigetoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10120338
    Abstract: A holographic-stereogram-forming apparatus includes a laser beam source that generates a laser beam to be split into an object beam and a reference beam; a display that displays an original image corresponding to a substantially strip-shaped holographic element constituting a holographic stereogram containing parallax information in a horizontal direction; a diffusing unit provided on a light-emission side of the display and including optical elements having different thicknesses in a direction of light transmission, the optical elements being arranged in a matrix and each having a substantially rectangular shape with a vertical length being shorter than a horizontal length, the diffusing unit diffusing object beam more widely in the vertical direction than in the horizontal direction, the object beam to be diffused by the diffusing unit being generated by the display; and a condensing unit that condenses the object beam diffused by the diffusing unit on a hologram recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Ogasawara, Jiro Minabe, Shigetoshi Nakamura, Takashi Kikuchi, Masahiro Igusa, Motohiko Sakamaki
  • Publication number: 20180275603
    Abstract: A composition for a hologram recording material includes a binder precursor containing a compound having a structure represented by formula A below, a polymerizable monomer and a photopolymerization initiator. In the formula A, R1 to R3 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, E represents a divalent electron attracting group, a wavy line portion represents a bonding site with another structure, and when E is —C(?O)O—, R3 is not an alkyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi KIKUCHI, Masahiro IGUSA, Shigetoshi NAKAMURA, Yasuhiro OGASAWARA, Takashi FUJIMOTO, Jiro MINABE
  • Publication number: 20180275607
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus includes a light source, a light guide plate, and an adjacent layer. The light guide plate includes a first surface, a second surface facing the first surface, and plural light exit portions provided on one of the first and second surfaces. The light guide plate guides therethrough a beam of light incident upon one of the first and second surfaces while reflecting the beam between the first and second surfaces. The light guide plate redirects the beam incident upon any one of the plural light exit portions so as to cause the beam to exit the light guide plate. The adjacent layer provided adjacent to at least one of the first and second surfaces has a lower refractive index than that of the light guide plate and increases a critical angle compared to that observed when air exists instead of the adjacent layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigetoshi NAKAMURA, Jiro MINABE, Yasuhiro OGASAWARA, Takashi FUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180267224
    Abstract: A light guide device includes a light guide plate that includes a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface in one of which plural light exit portions are provided, that guides light introduced into the light guide plate while reflecting the light between the first surface and the second surface, and that refracts or reflects the guided light so as to cause the light to exit by using the plural light exit portions. The light guide device has an introduction portion that is provided in the light guide plate and that introduces at least part of light incident upon the introduction portion in plural directions in a plane where the light is guided by the light guide plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Fujimoto, Jiro Minabe, Yasuhiro Ogasawara, Shigetoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9939782
    Abstract: A hologram recording device includes a light outputting unit, which sequentially outputs laser beams having different wavelengths such that the laser beams are coaxial and includes an optical member and laser beam sources, and a recording unit, which sequentially irradiates the recording medium with the laser beams to record holograms in a multiwavelength superimposing manner. The optical member includes optical elements that reflect, in the optical direction, a laser beam incident thereon in a direction crossing the optical axis direction, and that allow a laser beam incident thereon in the optical axis direction to pass therethrough. The laser beam sources radiate laser beams to the optical member, and are arranged so that a laser beam emitted from a laser beam source among the laser beam sources that exposes a recording medium for a longer exposure period with the laser beam passes through a smaller number of optical elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigetoshi Nakamura, Jiro Minabe, Yasuhiro Ogasawara
  • Publication number: 20170269549
    Abstract: A hologram recording device includes a light outputting unit, which sequentially outputs laser beams having different wavelengths such that the laser beams are coaxial and includes an optical member and laser beam sources, and a recording unit, which sequentially irradiates the recording medium with the laser beams to record holograms in a multiwavelength superimposing manner. The optical member includes optical elements that reflect, in the optical direction, a laser beam incident thereon in a direction crossing the optical axis direction, and that allow a laser beam incident thereon in the optical axis direction to pass therethrough. The laser beam sources radiate laser beams to the optical member, and are arranged so that a laser beam emitted from a laser beam source among the laser beam sources that exposes a recording medium for a longer exposure period with the laser beam passes through a smaller number of optical elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigetoshi NAKAMURA, Jiro MINABE, Yasuhiro OGASAWARA
  • Publication number: 20170212471
    Abstract: A hologram recording device includes a light outputting unit that sequentially outputs multiple laser beams such that the laser beams are coaxially aligned, the laser beams having different wavelengths and being emitted from multiple laser beam sources, an optical system that generates a reference beam and an object beam, with which a hologram is recorded, from each of the laser beams output from the light outputting unit, and an adjusting unit that adjusts a relative position of a recording medium and a focus position of the object beam generated from each of the laser beams having different wavelengths so that the object beam is focused on a surface of the recording medium when the hologram recording device records multiple holograms in a wavelength multiplex recording by sequentially applying the object beams and the reference beams to the recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro OGASAWARA, Shigetoshi NAKAMURA, Jiro MINABE
  • Publication number: 20170090421
    Abstract: An image recording device includes a laser beam source that emits a laser beam, a splitting unit that splits the laser beam emitted from the laser beam source into two laser beams, a display device that displays images over a display area thereof divided into segments, a display controller that controls display of the display device so that images for forming a holographic stereogram are displayed on the segments of the display area and so that one of the laser beams is modulated by the images displayed on the display device to become object beams, an optical system that images the object beams on a hologram recording medium so that the object beams are superimposed one on top of another, and an irradiating unit that irradiates the hologram recording medium with, besides the object beams, the other laser beam split by the splitting unit as a reference beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiro MINABE, Yasuhiro OGASAWARA, Shigetoshi NAKAMURA, Takashi KIKUCHI, Masahiro IGUSA, Motohiko SAKAMAKI
  • Publication number: 20170038729
    Abstract: A holographic-stereogram-forming apparatus includes a laser beam source that generates a laser beam to be split into an object beam and a reference beam; a display that displays an original image corresponding to a substantially strip-shaped holographic element constituting a holographic stereogram containing parallax information in a horizontal direction; a diffusing unit provided on a light-emission side of the display and including optical elements having different thicknesses in a direction of light transmission, the optical elements being arranged in a matrix and each having a substantially rectangular shape with a vertical length being shorter than a horizontal length, the diffusing unit diffusing object beam more widely in the vertical direction than in the horizontal direction, the object beam to be diffused by the diffusing unit being generated by the display; and a condensing unit that condenses the object beam diffused by the diffusing unit on a hologram recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro OGASAWARA, Jiro MINABE, Shigetoshi NAKAMURA, Takashi KIKUCHI, Masahiro IGUSA, Motohiko SAKAMAKI