Patents by Inventor Keisuke Yoshida

Keisuke Yoshida 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).

  • Image forming apparatus with removable feeding unit
    Patent number: 9715199
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main assembly having a door, a feeding unit including first and second rotatable members configured to form a nip for feeding a sheet and a moving mechanism configured to move the first rotatable member in a spacing direction relative to the second rotatable member, a power source provided in the apparatus main assembly, and a motor provided in the apparatus main assembly and configured to drive the moving mechanism. The feeding unit is detachably mountable to the apparatus main assembly upon opening of the door. An electric power supplying path is capable of supplying electric power from the power source to the motor via the feeding unit despite the door being in an open state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keisuke Yoshida, Takeshi Fukuda
  • SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20170047233
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a placing table configured to hold a substrate having a processing target film, which is decomposed by irradiating an ultraviolet ray thereto under an oxygen-containing atmosphere; a processing chamber, configured to accommodate therein the substrate placed on the placing table, having therein the oxygen-containing atmosphere; and an ultraviolet ray irradiation device configured to irradiate the ultraviolet ray to the substrate within the processing chamber. Further, the placing table is provided with a surrounding member configured to surround the substrate placed on the placing table and restrict a gas introduction amount from an outside of the substrate toward above the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Masatoshi Kaneda, Yuzo Ohishi, Keisuke Yoshida
  • Substrate processing method, substrate processing apparatus, substrate processing system and recording medium
    Patent number: 9514951
    Abstract: A substrate processing method can remove a part of a processing target film formed on a surface of a substrate W under a normal pressure atmosphere while suppressing an influence upon the substrate. A source material of the processing target film, which is decomposed by irradiating an ultraviolet ray thereto under an oxygen-containing atmosphere, is coated on the substrate W, and the processing target film is formed by heating the source material coated on the substrate W. Then, the substrate W having thereon the processing target film is placed within a processing chamber under the oxygen-containing atmosphere where a gas flow velocity is equal to or smaller than 10 cm/sec, and the part of the processing target film is removed by irradiating the ultraviolet ray to the substrate W.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Masatoshi Kaneda, Yuzo Ohishi, Keisuke Yoshida
  • METAL/CERAMIC BONDED BODY, DIAPHRAGM VACUUM GAUGE, BONDING METHOD FOR METAL AND CERAMIC, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR DIAPHRAGM VACUUM GAUGE
    Publication number: 20160349135
    Abstract: A metal-ceramic bonded body includes a metal member, a ceramic member, a bonding layer that is formed from a glaze and bonds the metal member and the ceramic member. A conductive layer defines an outer surface of the ceramic member and is covered by the bonding layer. The conductive layer has a higher electrical conductivity than the bonding layer. A terminal layer is located on a portion of the outer surface of the ceramic member that is separated from the metal member. The bonding layer is located between the metal member and the terminal layer. The conductive layer includes a conductive metallized layer in which metal particles are diffused in the outer surface of the ceramic member, and a conductive metal layer that covers at least a portion of the conductive metallized layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Naoki TAKAHASHI, Keisuke YOSHIDA
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING SURFACE-TREATED STEEL SHEET, SURFACE-TREATED STEEL SHEET, AND ORGANIC RESIN COATED METAL CONTAINER
    Publication number: 20160265134
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a surface-treated steel sheet including the step of forming a layer mainly composed of an oxygen compound containing Al onto a tin-plated steel sheet by conducting cathode electrolytic treatment to the tin-plated steel sheet using an electrolytic treatment solution containing Al ions and nitrate ions. For the electrolytic treatment solution, an electrolytic treatment solution not containing F ions and where the amount of nitrate ions contained is 11,500 to 25,000 ppm by weight is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Kunihiro YOSHIMURA, Masanobu MATSUBARA, Marie SASAKI, Masahiko MATSUKAWA, Keisuke YOSHIDA, Wataru KUROKAWA, Munemitsu HIROTSU, Mitsuhide AIHARA
  • POSITIONING MEMBER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20160209802
    Abstract: A positioning member is configured to be fixed to a main assembly frame of an image forming apparatus and configured to position a fixing device. The positioning member includes a mounting portion, a first projected portion configured to be inserted into a first hole of the main assembly frame, a second projected portion configured to be inserted into a second hole of the main assembly frame, and a third projected portion configured to be inserted into a third hole of the main assembly frame. The third projected portion includes a snap-off facilitating portion that snaps off in order to permit movement of the positioning member relative to the main assembly frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Keisuke Yoshida, Takeshi Fukuda
  • IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20160202650
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a feeding unit including first and second rotatable members configured to form a nip for feeding a sheet and a moving mechanism configured to move the first rotatable member in a spacing direction from the second rotatable member, wherein the feeding unit is detachably mountable to the apparatus main assembly with opening of the door; a power source provided in the apparatus main assembly; a driving source, provided in the apparatus main assembly, configured to drive the moving mechanism; and an electric power supplying path capable of supplying electric power from the power source to the driving source via the feeding unit despite the door being in an open state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Keisuke Yoshida, Takeshi Fukuda
  • SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20160181133
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a hot plate which supports and heats a substrate, a light source which emits etching energy beam such that the etching energy beam etches the substrate held by the hot plate, a window device which is positioned between the light source and the hot plate and transmits the etching energy beam emitted by the light source toward the substrate, and an adjusting device which adjusts emission amounts of the etching energy beam from portions of the window device toward the substrate such that the adjusting device reduces difference in etching amounts of portions of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Keisuke YOSHIDA, Yuzo OHISHI, Keisuke SASAKI, Shoichi TERADA
  • Image heating apparatus including a covering member configured to cover an electrode portion
    Patent number: 9367006
    Abstract: An image heating apparatus includes: an endless belt; a rotatable member configured to cooperate with the endless belt to form the nip; a back-up member including a heater and an electrode portion connected with the heater; an electric energy supply member mounted to the back-up member; a regulating member mounted to the back-up member to regulate movement of the endless belt in a longitudinal direction of the belt; and a covering member for covering the electrode portion when the endless belt is inserted and removed in a longitudinal direction in the state that the electric energy supply member and the regulating member are dismounted from the back-up member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keisuke Yoshida, Takatoshi Chiba, Youichi Chikugo
  • Computer system and startup method
    Patent number: 9361124
    Abstract: A computer system comprising a plurality of computers on which a plurality of operating systems run, wherein a memory stores a first hardware control unit, wherein a storage device stores a first OS image, a second OS image, a second hardware control unit for executing start processing of the second OS, and an address rewrite unit, wherein the second hardware control unit includes a start unit for starting the second hardware control unit, wherein the address rewrite unit which is started by the first OS is configured to: obtain an address of a storage area, in which address data to be rewritten is stored, as a target address, rewrite the address data stored in the storage area corresponding to the obtained target address and start the start unit, wherein the start unit is configured to start the second hardware control unit by using the rewritten address data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Norimitsu Hayakawa, Keisuke Yoshida, Takashi Shimojo, Masatoshi Konagaya, Yoshihito Nakagawa, Toshiomi Moriki
  • Image heating unit, recording medium conveying unit and image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 9310724
    Abstract: An image heating unit is detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus. The image heating unit includes: first and second rotatable members configured to feed a recording material in an image heating process; a casing enclosing the first and second rotatable member and provided with an opening configured to permit passage of the recording material; a movable member movable relative to the opening between a first position taken when the image heating process is carried out and a second position in which a jam clearance operation is operable through the opening and in which a test finger is prevented from entering through the opening into the casing; and a locking mechanism configured to lock the movable member at the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Fukuda, Keisuke Yoshida
  • Friction transmission belt and method for manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 9303722
    Abstract: A friction transmission belt includes a belt body made of a rubber composition and wrapped around pulleys to transmit power. A thermoplastic resin film(s) adheres to a pulley contact-side surface of the belt body, and friction coefficient reduction powder particles dispersively adhere to the pulley contact-side surface of the belt body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Yoshida, Sungjin Kim
  • CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD
    Publication number: 20160088094
    Abstract: A control device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: when detecting a new access from a communication device, based on session information including times of past accesses, compute a time period of a difference between a first time at which the new access is detected and a second time of a last access among the past accesses, and when the time period exceeds a given time interval, determine whether a session established with the communication device is valid for the new access in accordance with another time period over which the communication device is in locked state from the second time to the first time, the locked state not accepting an operation by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Masafumi KOBAYASHI, Naruhito TAKIGUCHI, Yasuhito HONDA, Keisuke YOSHIDA, Kazushi Sasaki, Namiko GOTO
  • Image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 9291991
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device configured to form a toner image on a sheet, a fixing device, including first and second rotatable members, for forming a nip, configured to fix the toner image formed on the sheet by the image forming device, a mounting portion to which the fixing device is detachably mountable substantially along a longitudinal direction thereof, a pressing mechanism configured to press the first rotatable member toward the second rotatable member by entrance thereof, along a direction substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, into a space of the mounting portion through which the fixing device passes during mounting and demounting, and a retracting mechanism configured to retract the pressing mechanism from the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keisuke Yoshida
  • TRANSFER SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20160079103
    Abstract: In a transfer system, at least one of a plurality of process apparatuses is connected to a station as a connected process apparatus. A station control unit controls a transfer device provided in the station through a communication with a process apparatus control unit to load the processing object to the connected process apparatus from the station and to unload the processing object from the connected process apparatus to the station. The station control unit controls the transfer device to begin unloading of the processing object from the connected process apparatus to the station after receiving a signal indicative of a presence of the processing object to be unloaded from the process apparatus control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Masaaki KUROYANAGI, Toshihiro OKUMURA, Keisuke YOSHIDA, Kenji OTA
  • CARPET WITH CABLE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING CARPET WITH CABLE
    Publication number: 20160039367
    Abstract: The present invention provides a carpet with cable capable of inhibiting noise. The carpet is provided on a floor on a vehicle interior. The cable is routed along the carpet on an opposite side from the vehicle interior. An attachment member is molded by hot-pressing a nonwoven fabric into a shape configured by a depression and a pair of wings. The pair of wings are fixated to the carpet at respective positions with a center axis of the cable therebetween, and the depression is integrally connected to the pair of wings and covers the cable on an opposite side from the carpet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke YOSHIDA, Yasuhiro KAJIWARA
  • SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD, SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SUBSTRATE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20150371894
    Abstract: A substrate processing method can remove a part of a processing target film formed on a surface of a substrate W under a normal pressure atmosphere while suppressing an influence upon the substrate. A source material of the processing target film, which is decomposed by irradiating an ultraviolet ray thereto under an oxygen-containing atmosphere, is coated on the substrate W, and the processing target film is formed by heating the source material coated on the substrate W. Then, the substrate W having thereon the processing target film is placed within a processing chamber under the oxygen-containing atmosphere where a gas flow velocity is equal to or smaller than 10 cm/sec, and the part of the processing target film is removed by irradiating the ultraviolet ray to the substrate W.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Masatoshi Kaneda, Yuzo Ohishi, Keisuke Yoshida
  • Transport system
    Patent number: 9177844
    Abstract: A process-line-to-process-line transport apparatus transports a transport subject between corresponding two of process lines. A first transport vehicle transports the transport subject in a first process line, and a second transport vehicle transports the transport subject in a second process line. A relay stocking apparatus is placed in a corresponding location, at which the relay stocking apparatus receives the transport subject from one of the first transport vehicle and the second transport vehicle and passes the received transport subject to the other one of the first transport vehicle and the second transport vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Kuroyanagi, Toshihiro Okumura, Keisuke Yoshida
  • IMAGE HEATING UNIT, RECORDING MEDIUM CONVEYING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20150063868
    Abstract: An image heating unit detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus, the image heating unit includes first and second rotatable members configured to and feed a recording material in an image heating process; a casing enclosing the first and second rotatable member and provided with an opening configured to permit passage of the recording material; a movable member movable relative to the opening between a first position taken when the image heating process is carried out and a second position in which a jam clearance operation is capable through the opening and in which a test finger is prevented from entering through the opening into the casing; and a locking mechanism configured to lock the movable member at the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Takeshi Fukuda, Keisuke Yoshida
  • Wire connector
    Patent number: D759595
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Enomoto, Kenichi Inokoshi, Hisayoshi Yaita, Keisuke Yoshida, Atsushi Sakatani