Patents by Inventor Kazuhiko Arai
Kazuhiko Arai 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: 20140178100Abstract: An electrostatic image developer includes a toner containing an external additive having a volume-average particle size of about 80 to 400 nm and an average circularity of about 0.7 to 0.85. The developer is used in an image forming apparatus including an image-carrying member having a top surface layer containing fluorocarbon resin particles, and a developer-carrying member that faces the image-carrying member and carries an electrostatic image developer, in which a value obtained by dividing the amount of developer on the developer-carrying member [g/m2] by a shortest distance between the image-carrying member and the developer-carrying member [?m] is about 0.8 to 1.8, and a peripheral velocity ratio of the developer-carrying member to the image-carrying member is about 1.5 to 5.0 or the developer-carrying member moves in a direction opposite to the image-carrying member in a facing portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2013Publication date: June 26, 2014Inventors: Sakon TAKAHASHI, Akihiro IIZUKA, Motoko SAKAI, Kunihiko SATO, Kazuhiko ARAI, Nobumasa FURUYA, Masaaki TAKAHASHI, Daisuke HARUYAMA, Koji NISHIMURA
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Publication number: 20140140739Abstract: A developing device includes a first developer holder and a second developer holder. The first developer holder is disposed so as to face an image holding member and rotates so as to move in a direction opposite to a direction of movement of the image holding member at a first facing portion. The second developer holder is disposed downstream from the first developer holder in the direction of movement of the image holding member so as to face the image holding member and rotates so as to move in the same direction as the image holding member moves at a second facing portion. A value obtained by dividing an amount of developer per unit area held on the first developer holder by a shortest distance between the image holding member and the first developer holder is approximately in a range from 1.00×103 kg/m3 to 1.60×103 kg/m3.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2013Publication date: May 22, 2014Inventors: Kunihiko SATO, Yoko MIYAMOTO, Yoshiya MASHIMO, Masaaki TAKAHASHI, Sakon TAKAHASHI, Nobumasa FURUYA, Kazuhiko ARAI
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Publication number: 20140126927Abstract: A developer contains a toner having an external additive deposited thereon. The developer is used with an image-forming apparatus including an image carrier including a surface layer in which fluoropolymer resin particles are dispersed and a cleaning member disposed in contact with an outer surface of the image carrier. The external additive is a nonspherical external additive whose volume average particle size is smaller than the average particle size of exposed portions of the fluoropolymer resin particles in the surface layer of the image carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi KAWAMATA, Kunihiko SATO, Sakon TAKAHASHI, Nobumasa FURUYA, Kazuhiko ARAI, Masaaki TAKAHASHI, Koji NISHIMURA, Daisuke HARUYAMA
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Patent number: 8587173Abstract: Provided is an intermediate member which is arranged between a motor housing (4) and a transmission case (2) and which has multiple motor housing supporting point positions (A) and transmission case supporting point positions (B). The intermediate member is coupled to the motor housing (4) at the motor housing supporting point positions (A). The transmission case supporting point positions (B) are each arranged in an angular region formed between a motor housing supporting line (C) and a motor housing supporting center line (D) which is the center between the motor housing supporting line (C) and another motor housing supporting line (C) adjacent thereto.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2009Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinya Kurosawa, Kazuhiko Arai
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Patent number: 8469679Abstract: An object of the present invention is to promote oil separation in a sealed container, thereby decreasing the amount of oil discharged to the outside of a compressor. The compressor comprises discharge hole provided at position facing the end surface of a rotor and through which a compressed refrigerant from first and second rotary compression elements is discharged into the sealed container; and a refrigerant flow path which is extended from a space surrounded with a coil end of a stator projecting from the end surface of the rotor to a rotary compression mechanism side to a space of an air gap between the rotor and the stator, to guide the compressed refrigerant discharged through the discharge hole to an electromotive element opposite to the rotary compression mechanism side.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2010Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hirotsugu Ogasawara, Takahiro Nishikawa, Yoshihisa Kogure, Kazuhiko Arai, Hiroyuki Yoshida
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Patent number: 8364069Abstract: A cleaning device includes a scraping member that scrapes foreign materials from a member to be cleaned while being in contact with the member to be cleaned, and a lubricant supply unit that supplies a lubricant upstream of a contact position between the member to be cleaned and the scraping member in a moving direction of the member to be cleaned. The lubricant supply unit supplies a powder of a solid lubricant containing a fatty acid metal salt and a fluorocarbon resin.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2010Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko Arai, Shinichi Kawamata
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Patent number: 8270890Abstract: A cleaning device includes: a removing unit that removes a toner on an image holder by coming into contact with the image holder that rotates; a transporting unit provided above the removing unit and adapted to cause the toner removed by the removing unit to be axially transported as the transporting unit rotates; and an accommodating container in which the transporting unit is provided and which accommodates the removed toner, and the transporting unit is movable in a direction in which the transporting unit moves away from the removing unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2010Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko Arai, Mitsuo Yamamoto, Koichiro Yuasa
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Publication number: 20120107739Abstract: The present invention provides an electrostatic latent image developer used in an image forming apparatus including: an image holding member; a charging unit; a latent image forming unit; a developing unit which stores the electrostatic latent image developer and includes a developer holding member, wherein the developing unit develops the electrostatic latent image formed on the image holding member by bringing a magnetic brush, which is formed on a surface of the developer holding member by the electrostatic latent image developer, into contact with the image holding member, to form a toner image; a transfer unit; a cleaning unit; and a lubricant applying unit, wherein the electrostatic latent image developer contains a toner having a 50% integrated volume particle diameter of from 3.0 to 6.0 ?m, and a carrier having a mean magnetization of 5.0×10?16 to 4.0×10?15 AM2/particle in an applied magnetic field of 1 kilo-oersted.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2011Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki YAMASHITA, Kazuhiko ARAI, Kunihiko SATO, Haruhide ISHIDA, Michio TAKE, Sakon TAKAHASHI, Fusako KIYONO, Yoshifumi IIDA, Mona TASAKI
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Publication number: 20120093543Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developer contains a toner having a volume-average particle diameter of about 2.0 ?m to about 6.5 ?m, and a carrier whose average magnetization per carrier particle at an applied magnetic field of 1 kilooersted is about 3.0×10?16 Am2/particle to about 3.0×10?15 Am2/particle, wherein the electrostatic latent image developer is used in an image forming apparatus including an image-carrying member having a top surface layer composed of a cured film containing fluorocarbon resin particles, a developing unit that develops an electrostatic latent image formed on the image-carrying member to form a toner image by bringing a magnetic brush formed of the electrostatic latent image developer and having a brush roughness of about 300 ?m to about 850 ?m into contact with the image-carrying member, and a cleaning unit that includes a cleaning blade.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2011Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Miho IKEDA, Sakon TAKAHASHI, Kazuhiko ARAI, Haruhide ISHIDA, Michio TAKE, Kunihiko SATO, Yoshinori KUBO, Fusako KIYONO
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Patent number: 8126385Abstract: There is provided an image forming mechanism including: an image carrier containing a lubricant in a photosensitive layer that is formed on a surface of the image carrier, and on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; a developing section developing the electrostatic latent image into a visible image by a developer that contains the lubricant; and a cleaning member formed with a first layer that contacts the photosensitive layer, and a second layer that is formed of a material having a lower modulus of repulsion elasticity than the first layer and that is layered with the first layer and that does not contact the surface of the image carrier.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2009Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko Arai, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Daisuke Nagao, Ryosuke Takahashi, Yasuhiro Oda, Koichiro Yuasa
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Publication number: 20110206430Abstract: A cleaning device includes a scraping member that scrapes foreign materials from a member to be cleaned while being in contact with the member to be cleaned, and a lubricant supply unit that supplies a lubricant upstream of a contact position between the member to be cleaned and the scraping member in a moving direction of the member to be cleaned. The lubricant supply unit supplies a powder of a solid lubricant containing a fatty acid metal salt and a fluorocarbon resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2010Publication date: August 25, 2011Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko ARAI, Shinichi Kawamata
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Patent number: 7962066Abstract: A cleaning unit includes a cleaner. The cleaner includes: a support member; a toner scraping member; and a toner storing mechanism. The toner storing mechanism includes: a toner catching member provided in a vicinity of a leading end of the toner scraping member so as to catch the toner scraped off; and a swingably supporting mechanism which supports swingably the toner catching member with a middle portion of the toner catching member as a swing fulcrum. A free end portion of the toner catching member protruding from the toner scraping member in the moving direction is a storage moving portion which moves based on an amount of the stored toner, and a portion opposite to the free end portion with respect to the swing fulcrum is a press portion which presses the toner scraping member toward the cleaned member based on a moving amount of the storage moving portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2008Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko Arai, Koichiro Yuasa
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Patent number: 7894661Abstract: A calibration apparatus which estimates a calibration parameter of an image acquisition apparatus, comprises a calibration jig which includes at least two planes and in which calibration markers having known three-dimensional positions are arranged in each plane based on a predetermined rule. The calibration apparatus further comprises a calibration marker recognition section configured to measure and number in-image positions of the calibration markers in at least one image obtained by photographing the calibration jig by the image acquisition apparatus, and a parameter estimate section configured to estimate the calibration parameters of the image acquisition apparatus by the use of the three-dimensional position and the in-image position of the calibration markers numbered by the calibration marker recognition section.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2003Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Akio Kosaka, Kazuhiko Arai, Takashi Miyoshi, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Hidekazu Iwaki
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Publication number: 20110025155Abstract: Provided is an intermediate member which is arranged between a motor housing (4) and a transmission case (2) and which has multiple motor housing supporting point positions (A) and transmission case supporting point positions (B). The intermediate member is coupled to the motor housing (4) at the motor housing supporting point positions (A). The transmission case supporting point positions (B) are each arranged in an angular region formed between a motor housing supporting line (C) and a motor housing supporting center line (D) which is the center between the motor housing supporting line (C) and another motor housing supporting line (C) adjacent thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2009Publication date: February 3, 2011Inventors: Shinya Kurosawa, Kazuhiko Arai
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Publication number: 20110020041Abstract: A cleaning device includes: a removing unit that removes a toner on an image holder by coming into contact with the image holder that rotates; a transporting unit provided above the removing unit and adapted to cause the toner removed by the removing unit to be axially transported as the transporting unit rotates; and an accommodating container in which the transporting unit is provided and which accommodates the removed toner, and the transporting unit is movable in a direction in which the transporting unit moves away from the removing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2010Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko ARAI, Mitsuo YAMAMOTO, Koichiro YUASA
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Publication number: 20100215524Abstract: An object of the present invention is to promote oil separation in a sealed container, thereby decreasing the amount of oil discharged to the outside of a compressor. The compressor comprises discharge hole provided at positions facing the end surface of a rotor and through which a compressed refrigerant from first and second rotary compression elements is discharged into the sealed container; and a refrigerant flow path which is extended from a space surrounded with a coil end of a stator projecting from the end surface of the rotor to a rotary compression mechanism side to a space of an air gap between the rotor and the stator, to guide the compressed refrigerant discharged through the discharge hole to an electromotive element opposite to the rotary compression mechanism side, and the outlet of this refrigerant flow path opposite to the rotary compression mechanism side faces the inner wall surface of the sealed container.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2010Publication date: August 26, 2010Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirotsugu Ogasawara, Takahiro Nishikawa, Yoshihisa Kogure, Kazuhiko Arai, Hiroyuki Yoshida
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Publication number: 20100215525Abstract: An object of the present invention is to promote oil separation in a sealed container, thereby decreasing the amount of oil discharged to the outside of a compressor. The compressor comprises discharge hole provided at position facing the end surface of a rotor and through which a compressed refrigerant from first and second rotary compression elements is discharged into the sealed container; and a refrigerant flow path which is extended from a space surrounded with a coil end of a stator projecting from the end surface of the rotor to a rotary compression mechanism side to a space of an air gap between the rotor and the stator, to guide the compressed refrigerant discharged through the discharge hole to an electromotive element opposite to the rotary compression mechanism side.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2010Publication date: August 26, 2010Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirotsugu Ogasawara, Takahiro Nishikawa, Yoshihisa Kogure, Kazuhiko Arai, Hiroyuki Yoshida
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Publication number: 20100202813Abstract: There is provided an image forming mechanism including: an image carrier containing a lubricant in a photosensitive layer that is formed on a surface of the image carrier, and on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; a developing section developing the electrostatic latent image into a visible image by a developer that contains the lubricant; and a cleaning member formed with a first layer that contacts the photosensitive layer, and a second layer that is formed of a material having a lower modulus of repulsion elasticity than the first layer and that is layered with the first layer and that does not contact the surface of the image carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2009Publication date: August 12, 2010Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko Arai, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Daisuke Nagao, Ryosuke Takahashi, Yasuhiro Oda, Koichiro Yuasa
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Patent number: 7605949Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores a correction amount used to correct color unevenness of an image according to a plurality of halftone screening conditions; and a correction unit that corrects an input image according to the correction amount stored in the storage unit. The stored correction amount includes common information, which is common among the halftone screening conditions, and dependent information, which is dependent on the respective halftone screening conditions.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2006Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko Arai, Junichi Ichikawa, Kenji Hara, Yasuyuki Tanaka, Yoshiya Imoto, Akira Ishii
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Publication number: 20090257797Abstract: A cleaning unit includes a cleaner. The cleaner includes: a support member; a toner scraping member; and a toner storing mechanism. The toner storing mechanism includes: a toner catching member provided in a vicinity of a leading end of the toner scraping member so as to catch the toner scraped off; and a swingably supporting mechanism which supports swingably the toner catching member with a middle portion of the toner catching member as a swing fulcrum. A free end portion of the toner catching member protruding from the toner scraping member in the moving direction is a storage moving portion which moves based on an amount of the stored toner, and a portion opposite to the free end portion with respect to the swing fulcrum is a press portion which presses the toner scraping member toward the cleaned member based on a moving amount of the storage moving portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2008Publication date: October 15, 2009Inventors: Kazuhiko Arai, Koichiro Yuasa