Patents by Inventor Kazuyoshi Kimura

Kazuyoshi Kimura 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: 20240144882
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display apparatus includes a plurality of semiconductor layers, a first insulation film, a first conductive layer, a second insulation film and a display element includes a second conductive layer. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are opposed to each other to form a capacitance unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi OMATA, Hiroyuki KIMURA, Makoto SHIBUSAWA, Hiroshi TABATAKE
  • Patent number: 11968478
    Abstract: To reduce complication of a configuration of a vehicle while suppressing an increase in weight of the vehicle, a camera system mounted on a vehicle includes an imaging unit to capture multiple frame images of an outside of the vehicle per cycle and an image processor to obtain the multiple frame images from the imaging unit and separate the multiple frame images into a first given number of frame images as a recognition target and a second given number of frame images as a storage target to be stored in an image recorder. The image processor separately outputs the first and second given numbers of frame images to be recognized and stored, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshikazu Murao, Kazuyoshi Akiba, Tetsuya Kimata, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Takayuki Kimura
  • Patent number: 11307521
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus may include: a fixer that includes a fixing nip and makes an image formation medium pass through the fixing nip, to apply heat and pressure to the image formation medium, and fix toner containing wax to the image formation medium, an image formed with the toner having been transferred onto the image formation medium; and a hardware processor that controls the fixer in such a manner that an amount of wax precipitating on a surface of the image formation medium, when a laminating process is performed on the image formation medium to which the toner has been fixed, becomes smaller than when the laminating process is not performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20220011697
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that forms an image with toner containing wax on an image forming medium; a first paper loading part that loads the image forming medium and is located downstream of the image former; a laminator that laminates a film on the image forming medium; a second paper loading part that loads the image forming medium and is located downstream of the laminator; a first path that extends from the image former to the first paper loading part; a second path that extends from the image former to the laminator; a switcher that switches a conveyance path of the image forming medium to either the first path or the second path; and a hardware processor that causes the switcher to switch the conveyance path to the second path when the laminator laminates the film on the image forming medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20210389702
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus may include: a fixer that includes a fixing nip and makes an image formation medium pass through the fixing nip, to apply heat and pressure to the image formation medium, and fix toner containing wax to the image formation medium, an image formed with the toner having been transferred onto the image formation medium; and a hardware processor that controls the fixer in such a manner that an amount of wax precipitating on a surface of the image formation medium, when a laminating process is performed on the image formation medium to which the toner has been fixed, becomes smaller than when the laminating process is not performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi KIMURA
  • Patent number: 10947943
    Abstract: A workpiece for a fuel injection component is made of a steel having compositions, by mass %, of C: 0.08 to 0.16%, Si: 0.10 to 0.30%, Mn: 1.00 to 2.00%, S: 0.005 to 0.030%, Cu: 0.01 to 0.30%, Ni: 0.40 to 1.50%, Cr: 0.50 to 1.50%, Mo: 0.30 to 0.70%, V: 0.10 to 0.40%, s-Al: 0.001 to 0.100%, and Fe and unavoidable impurities as remaining components. After heating the workpiece to a temperature of 950° C. or more and 1350° C. or less, the workpiece is subjected to a hot forging, and thereafter cooled at an average cooling rate of 0.1° C./sec. or more in a temperature range from 800° C. to 500° C., and at the average cooling rate of 0.02° C./sec. or more and 10° C./sec. or less in the subsequent temperature range from 500° C. to 300° C. to set an area ratio of a bainite structure after hot forging to 85% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Haritani, Yuuki Tanaka, Tomohiro Andoh, Kazuyoshi Kimura, Takahiro Miyazaki, Keisuke Inoue, Toshimasa Ito, Koji Morita, Tomomitsu Fukuoka, Tadashi Nishiwaki
  • Publication number: 20190376479
    Abstract: A workpiece for a fuel injection component is made of a steel having compositions, by mass %, of C: 0.08 to 0.16%, Si: 0.10 to 0.30%, Mn: 1.00 to 2.00%, S: 0.005 to 0.030%, Cu: 0.01 to 0.30%, Ni: 0.40 to 1.50%, Cr: 0.50 to 1.50%, Mo: 0.30 to 0.70%, V: 0.10 to 0.40%, s-Al: 0.001 to 0.100%, and Fe and unavoidable impurities as remaining components. After heating the workpiece to a temperature of 950° C. or more and 1350° C. or less, the workpiece is subjected to a hot forging, and thereafter cooled at an average cooling rate of 0.1° C./sec. or more in a temperature range from 800° C. to 500° C., and at the average cooling rate of 0.02° C./sec. or more and 10° C./sec. or less in the subsequent temperature range from 500° C. to 300° C. to set an area ratio of a bainite structure after hot forging to 85% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Makoto HARITANI, Yuuki TANAKA, Tomohiro ANDOH, Kazuyoshi KIMURA, Takahiro MIYAZAKI, Keisuke INOUE, Toshimasa ITO, Koji MORITA, Tomomitsu FUKUOKA, Tadashi NISHIWAKI
  • Patent number: 10435256
    Abstract: There are provided a sheet feeding apparatus and an image forming system which can horizontally maintain a posture of a topmost envelope in stored envelopes, by a simple configuration. The sheet feeding apparatus includes: a stacking surface portion 321; a sheet feeding roller 313; a pressing surface portion 362; and a curve forming portion 363. A length of the stacking surface portion 321 in a width direction is shorter than a length of each of envelopes P in a width direction. The pressing surface portion 362 is pressed by the sheet feeding roller 313 via the envelopes P. The curve forming portion 363 is arranged outside the sheet feeding roller 313 in a width direction, projects more upward in a vertical direction than the pressing surface portion 362, and supports the plurality of stacked envelopes P with a predetermined size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Kimura
  • Patent number: 10384891
    Abstract: A paper feed apparatus includes: a sheet tray on which sheets are stacked; a sheet attractor which is located above the sheet tray and attracts sheets one by one from the above; a leading edge fan which is located in a leading edge side of the sheets and blows separation air against leading edges of the sheets to separate an uppermost sheet of the sheets closest to the sheet attractor from lower sheets located below the uppermost sheet; a sheet conveyor which is located in a downstream side of the sheet attractor along a conveying direction of the sheets to convey the uppermost sheet which is attracted by the sheet attractor and separated from the lower sheets by the leading edge fan; and a lifting member which is detachably provided on the sheet tray to support a tail side of a back of the sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Wataru Furuichi, Kazuyoshi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20180150006
    Abstract: A paper feed apparatus includes: a sheet tray on which sheets are stacked; a sheet attractor which is located above the sheet tray and attracts sheets one by one from the above; a leading edge fan which is located in a leading edge side of the sheets and blows separation air against leading edges of the sheets to separate an uppermost sheet of the sheets closest to the sheet attractor from lower sheets located below the uppermost sheet; a sheet conveyor which is located in a downstream side of the sheet attractor along a conveying direction of the sheets to convey the uppermost sheet which is attracted by the sheet attractor and separated from the lower sheets by the leading edge fan; and a lifting member which is detachably provided on the sheet tray to support a tail side of a back of the sheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: WATARU FURUICHI, KAZUYOSHI KIMURA
  • Patent number: 9656818
    Abstract: A paper feeding device of an image forming device includes a flotation air blowing unit and a separation air blowing unit. The flotation air blowing unit floats stacked uppermost paper through air blowing. The separation air blowing unit blows an end of other paper floated together with the floated uppermost paper to separate the other paper from the uppermost paper, the end being on the downstream side in the paper feeding direction. The flotation air blowing unit floats an end of the stacked uppermost paper, the end being on the downstream side in the paper feeding direction. The paper feeding device includes a resistance force applying mechanism which applies resistance force that gives a load against movement along the paper feeding direction to an end of stacked upper paper, the end being on the upstream side in the paper feeding direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Wataru Furuichi, Kazuyoshi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20160200530
    Abstract: There are provided a sheet feeding apparatus and an image forming system that can horizontally maintain a posture of the topmost envelope in stored envelopes, by a simple configuration. The sheet feeding apparatus includes: a stacking portion; a conveying portion; and lifting members. A length of the stacking portion in a width direction perpendicular to a conveying direction of envelopes and also perpendicular to a vertical direction thereof is shorter than a length of each of the envelopes. The lifting members lift end portions of the upstream side of the envelopes in the conveying direction, upward in the vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventor: KAZUYOSHI KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20160200529
    Abstract: There are provided a sheet feeding apparatus and an image forming system which can horizontally maintain a posture of a topmost envelope in stored envelopes, by a simple configuration. The sheet feeding apparatus includes: a stacking surface portion 321; a sheet feeding roller 313; a pressing surface portion 362; and a curve forming portion 363. A length of the stacking surface portion 321 in a width direction is shorter than a length of each of envelopes P in a width direction. The pressing surface portion 362 is pressed by the sheet feeding roller 313 via the envelopes P. The curve forming portion 363 is arranged outside the sheet feeding roller 313 in a width direction, projects more upward in a vertical direction than the pressing surface portion 362, and supports the plurality of stacked envelopes P with a predetermined size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20150239692
    Abstract: A paper feeding device of an image forming device includes a flotation air blowing unit and a separation air blowing unit. The flotation air blowing unit floats stacked uppermost paper through air blowing. The separation air blowing unit blows an end of other paper floated together with the floated uppermost paper to separate the other paper from the uppermost paper, the end being on the downstream side in the paper feeding direction. The flotation air blowing unit floats an end of the stacked uppermost paper, the end being on the downstream side in the paper feeding direction. The paper feeding device includes a resistance force applying mechanism which applies resistance force that gives a load against movement along the paper feeding direction to an end of stacked upper paper, the end being on the upstream side in the paper feeding direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Wataru FURUICHI, Kazuyoshi KIMURA
  • Patent number: 7918448
    Abstract: A sheet supplying device, including a sheet stacking member which can stack various sized sheets, a side edge alignment member which moves perpendicular to a sheet supplying direction and aligns at least one of side edges of the stacked sheets placed on the sheet stacking member, and an auxiliary side edge alignment member which is provided on the side edge alignment member and ejects in a moving direction of the side edge alignment member and which aligns stacked sheets whose width is narrower than that of the stacked sheets which are to be aligned by the side edge alignment member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoo Suzuki, Kazuyoshi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20090148211
    Abstract: An image forming system, including an image forming apparatus, and a first sheet supplying device which is connected to the image forming apparatus, wherein the first sheet supplying device includes a scanner, a plurality of drawer-type sheet supplying trays, and a control section which is configured to prevent a predetermined sheet supplying tray among the plurality of sheet supplying trays from being drawn out, based on an operational condition of the scanner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20090044486
    Abstract: A wooden building member includes an elongated structural portion having a rectangular cross section and capable of receiving load applied thereto, a coating portion coating an entire length of at least three sides of the cross section of the structural portion, and an insulating portion interposed therebetween in a laminated manner and prevents load from transmitting to the coating portion. Since load is received by the structural portion, structural strength designing is facilitated, and even if the coating portion is completely burned down, the structural portion coated with the insulating portion is not easily burned down. Thus, fireproof capability of the wooden building member can be improved. Further, since a surface of the wooden building member is coated with the coating portion, the insulating portion is not exposed to the exterior thereby improving its appearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi KIMURA, Hiroyuki Adachi
  • Patent number: 7357584
    Abstract: Disclosed is a sheet transport device having: a registration roller to transport a sheet after correcting a skew of the sheet; a drive source to drive the registration roller; a frame body; and a rotation resisting body which is connected to the registration roller on one side and is connected to the frame body on the other side, to create a resisting force against a rotation of the registration roller in a sheet transport direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoo Suzuki, Susumu Okui, Kazuyoshi Kimura, Hideo Isohara, Masakazu Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20070256765
    Abstract: A high strength spring steel of this invention is characterized in containing, in percent of mass, of C: 0.36-0.48%; Si: 1.80-2.80%; Mn: 0.20-1.40%; P: 0.015% or less; S: 0.010% or less; Cu: 0.10-0.50%; Ni: 0.10-2.00%; Cr: 0.05-1.20%; s-Al: 0.005-0.040%; N: 0.002-0.012%; O: 0.002% or less, while the remainder is constituted of Fe and inevitable impurities and the quantity of inclusions of 10 ?m or larger in diameter per field of vision of 100 mm2 is 10 or less. A manufacturing method of high strength spring of this invention is characterized in that the high strength spring steel which is tempered to HRC52 or higher is formed into a spring shape by hot forming or cold forming and warm shot peening is carried out so as to produce a high strength spring of 1176 MPa or higher in maximum shearing stress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2004
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Kimura, Hiroshi Koyama, Akira Tange, Isamu Okuyama, Yosuke Hisano, Akio Yoneguchi
  • Publication number: 20070235924
    Abstract: There is described a paper sheet supplying apparatus that supplies paper sheets one by one to the image forming apparatus and conducts the dehumidifying operation of paper sheets only when a specific kind of paper sheets are accommodated in the paper sheet accommodating section, so as to achieve a high operating efficiency. The paper sheet supplying apparatus includes: a paper sheet accommodating section to accommodate paper sheets; a paper sheet feeding section to feed the paper sheets one by one from the paper sheet accommodating section; a dehumidification dryer to dehumidify the paper sheet accommodating section; and a control section to control the dehumidification dryer. Only when the control section receives paper kind information representing a specific kind of paper sheet, the control section activates and controls the dehumidification dryer, based on the paper kind information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Kimura