Patents by Inventor Keitaro Mori
Keitaro Mori 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: 20170211519Abstract: An intake apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes an intake apparatus body including a plurality of intake pipes which are connected to respective cylinders of the internal combustion engine, the internal combustion engine including the cylinders of which the number is multiples of three, and an outside gas distribution portion distributing outside gas to each of the plurality of intake pipes, the outside gas distribution portion including a single first outside gas distribution pipe connected to an outside gas supply source, a plurality of second outside gas distribution pipes branched from the first outside gas distribution portion, an outside gas collective passage gathering outside gas from the plurality of second outside gas distribution pipes, and three third outside gas distribution pipes branched from the outside gas collective passage and connected to the plurality of intake pipes respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi ITO, Keitaro MORI
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Publication number: 20170185018Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing unit that includes a first heating unit and a pressing unit that forms a fixing region, in which a recording material is sandwiched between the pressing unit and the first heating unit and an image on the recording material is fixed onto the recording material, a second heating unit that applies heat to a portion of the recording material, the portion not having reached the fixing region, and a deformation-suppression unit that suppresses deformation of the recording material due to the heat applied to the recording material by the second heating unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2016Publication date: June 29, 2017Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki YOKOYAMA, Mitsuhiro MATSUMOTO, Keitaro MORI
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Patent number: 9658587Abstract: A fixing device includes a heating member that has a heat source, comes into contact with a surface of a continuous medium having an image transferred thereto and heats the surface; a pressure member that is provided so as to oppose the heating member with the medium therebetween and applies pressure to the medium; and a tensioning member that is provided on a downstream side of a fixing area, where the heating member and the pressure member oppose each other, in a medium-transport direction, applies tension to the medium by pressing the medium toward the pressure member, and wraps the medium around the pressure member.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2016Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Keitaro Mori, Yuki Yokoyama, Masayo Higashimura, Mitsuhiro Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20170090372Abstract: A fixing device includes a heating member that has a heat source, comes into contact with a surface of a continuous medium having an image transferred thereto and heats the surface; a pressure member that is provided so as to oppose the heating member with the medium therebetween and applies pressure to the medium; and a tensioning member that is provided on a downstream side of a fixing area, where the heating member and the pressure member oppose each other, in a medium-transport direction, applies tension to the medium by pressing the medium toward the pressure member, and wraps the medium around the pressure member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Keitaro MORI, Yuki YOKOYAMA, Masayo HIGASHIMURA, Mitsuhiro MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20170075282Abstract: A pasting device includes a contact member disposed at a position that is downstream of a fixing unit that heats and fixes a developer transferred to a surface of a medium and that is upstream of a position at which a temperature of the heated developer decreases to a glass transition temperature with respect to a direction in which the medium is transported, the contact member contacting an image that has passed through the fixing unit; and a pasting member that is disposed downstream of the contact member with respect to the direction in which the medium is transported and that pastes a multilayered object to the surface of the medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayo HIGASHIMURA, Mitsuhiro MATSUMOTO, Keitaro MORI, Yuki YOKOYAMA
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Patent number: 9587566Abstract: This air intake apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a throttle-side air intake pipe having one end connected to a throttle and another end connected to a surge tank, an external gas inlet provided in at least one of the throttle-side air intake pipe and the surge tank, introducing external gas into at least one of the throttle-side air intake pipe and the surge tank, and a gas distributivity improvement fin provided inside at least one of the throttle-side air intake pipe and the surge tank, which corresponds to the external gas inlet, diffusing the external gas to intake air from the throttle.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2013Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi Ito, Keitaro Mori
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Publication number: 20170038699Abstract: A liquid developer includes a toner in which a compound having a charge-accepting functional group has been bonded to a surface of toner particles, and a carrier liquid which makes a charge density of a surface of the toner become 1 ?C/m2 or less when the toner is dispersed in the carrier liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2016Publication date: February 9, 2017Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi TATSUURA, Keitaro MORI, Kazunari KOMATSUZAKI, Yutaka NOGAMI
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Patent number: 9483001Abstract: A fixing device includes a rotatable fixing member provided in a fixing area where an unfixed image on surface of a medium is fixed, the fixing member including at least a thermoplastic surface layer that softens at a temperature below a fixing temperature at which the image is fixed; and a cleaning member provided on a downstream side with respect to the fixing area in a direction of rotation of the fixing member and that cleans the fixing member while coming into contact with a hardened portion of the fixing member in a cleaning area, the cleaning area being at a temperature below the temperature at which the thermoplastic surface layer of the fixing member softens.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2016Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki Yokoyama, Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Keitaro Mori, Masayo Higashimura
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Patent number: 9459549Abstract: A liquid developer includes a toner in which a compound having a charge-accepting functional group has been bonded to a surface of toner particles, and a carrier liquid which makes a charge density of a surface of the toner become 1 ?C/m2 or less when the toner is dispersed in the carrier liquid.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2013Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Tatsuura, Keitaro Mori, Kazunari Komatsuzaki, Yutaka Nogami
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Patent number: 9436133Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an electrostatic latent image holding member, a charging device, a latent image forming device, a developing device that stores a liquid developer containing a toner and a non-volatile carrier liquid, and develops the electrostatic latent image formed on the surface of the electrostatic latent image holding member by the liquid developer to form a toner image, a transfer device that transfers the toner image onto a surface of an impermeable recording medium, and a fixing device, wherein when the SP value of the toner is set as SP(t), the SP value of the non-volatile carrier liquid is set as SP(c), and the SP value of the recording medium is set as SP(m), an absolute value of a difference between SP(t) and SP(c) is from 1.5 to 7.0 and the following relational expression (A) is satisfied: |SP(c)?SP(m)|>|SP(t)?SP(m)|.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2014Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Tatsuura, Yutaka Nogami, Keitaro Mori, Yoshihiro Inaba, Takako Kobayashi, Daisuke Yoshino
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Publication number: 20160216660Abstract: A fixing device includes a heating unit that heats an unfixed image on a recording medium, which is deformed by heating, and hence fixes the unfixed image; and a transport member that closely contacts a no-image surface of the recording medium and transports the recording medium while causing a close contact force to act on the recording medium against a deformation force, which is generated at the recording medium by the heating of the heating unit. The close contact force of the recording medium with respect to the transport member is larger than the deformation force generated at the recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2015Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki YOKOYAMA, Kazuhiko ARAI, Kazunori NUMAO, Atsumi KURITA, Masayo HIGASHIMURA, Keitaro MORI
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Patent number: 9400461Abstract: A fixing device includes a heating unit that heats an unfixed image on a recording medium, which is deformed by heating, and hence fixes the unfixed image; and a transport member that closely contacts a no-image surface of the recording medium and transports the recording medium while causing a close contact force to act on the recording medium against a deformation force, which is generated at the recording medium by the heating of the heating unit. The close contact force of the recording medium with respect to the transport member is larger than the deformation force generated at the recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2015Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki Yokoyama, Kazuhiko Arai, Kazunori Numao, Atsumi Kurita, Masayo Higashimura, Keitaro Mori
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Publication number: 20160091840Abstract: Provided is a fixing device including a fixing unit that includes a pipe-shaped fixing member which includes an outermost layer including at least one selected from a group consisting of a hydrogenated nitrile rubber and a denatured hydrogenated nitrile rubber, and heats and pressurizes the recording medium to fix an unfixed developer image on a recording medium by bringing the outermost layer into contact with a surface of the recording medium which holds the developer image, the recording medium being transported while holding the unfixed developer image, and a heating unit that is disposed on an upstream side of the fixing unit in a transport direction of the recording medium, and heats the recording medium transported while holding the unfixed developer image.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2015Publication date: March 31, 2016Inventors: Yasushi KAWAHATA, Nobuhiro KATSUTA, Keitaro MORI
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Patent number: 9291970Abstract: Provided is a fixing device including a fixing unit that includes a pipe-shaped fixing member which includes an outermost layer including at least one selected from a group consisting of a hydrogenated nitrile rubber and a denatured hydrogenated nitrile rubber, and heats and pressurizes the recording medium to fix an unfixed developer image on a recording medium by bringing the outermost layer into contact with a surface of the recording medium which holds the developer image, the recording medium being transported while holding the unfixed developer image, and a heating unit that is disposed on an upstream side of the fixing unit in a transport direction of the recording medium, and heats the recording medium transported while holding the unfixed developer image.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2015Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasushi Kawahata, Nobuhiro Katsuta, Keitaro Mori
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Patent number: 9201375Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus including a first image forming unit that forms a first image on a front surface of a transported medium with a developer including toners and non-volatile oils, a removing unit that heats non-volatile oils on the front surface of the medium to remove the oils, a second image forming unit that forms a second image on a back surface of the medium with a developer including toners and non-volatile oils, a removing section that heats non-volatile oils on the back surface of the medium to remove the oils, and a fixing unit that fixes the first image and the second image on the front surface and the back surface of the medium.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2015Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazunari Komatsuzaki, Nobuhiro Katsuta, Yasushi Kawahata, Satoshi Tatsuura, Yutaka Nogami, Keitaro Mori
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Publication number: 20150322867Abstract: This air intake apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a throttle-side air intake pipe having one end connected to a throttle and another end connected to a surge tank, an external gas inlet provided in at least one of the throttle-side air intake pipe and the surge tank, introducing external gas into at least one of the throttle-side air intake pipe and the surge tank, and a gas distributivity improvement fin provided inside at least one of the throttle-side air intake pipe and the surge tank, which corresponds to the external gas inlet, diffusing the external gas to intake air from the throttle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2013Publication date: November 12, 2015Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Atsushi ITO, Keitaro MORI
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Patent number: 9176413Abstract: There is provided a liquid developer containing a toner that has a ratio G?(65)/G?(90) of a storage modulus G?(65) at 65° C. to a storage modulus G?(90) at 90° C. of from 1×10 to 1×103, and a carrier liquid that has a difference ?SP(tc) of SP value between the carrier liquid and the toner of from 1.5 to 7.0, and an image forming apparatus containing an electrostatic latent image holding member, a charging device, a latent image forming device, a developing device, a transfer device and a fixing device.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2014Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Tatsuura, Keitaro Mori, Nobuhiro Katsuta
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Publication number: 20150268613Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus including a first image forming unit that forms a first image on a front surface of a transported medium with a developer including toners and non-volatile oils, a removing unit that heats non-volatile oils on the front surface of the medium to remove the oils, a second image forming unit that forms a second image on a back surface of the medium with a developer including toners and non-volatile oils, a removing section that heats non-volatile oils on the back surface of the medium to remove the oils, and a fixing unit that fixes the first image and the second image on the front surface and the back surface of the medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2015Publication date: September 24, 2015Inventors: Kazunari KOMATSUZAKI, Nobuhiro KATSUTA, Yasushi KAWAHATA, Satoshi TATSUURA, Yutaka NOGAMI, Keitaro MORI
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Patent number: 9012119Abstract: A liquid developer includes a toner that contains a binder resin and a release agent, and a carrier liquid that has a difference (?SP (tc)) in SP value from the binder resin of from 1.5 to 7.0, wherein the release agent is not eluted in the carrier liquid at a temperature lower than a glass transition temperature of the binder resin.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2013Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keitaro Mori, Satoshi Tatsuura, Yutaka Nogami
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Publication number: 20150104215Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an electrostatic latent image holding member, a charging device, a latent image forming device, a developing device that stores a liquid developer containing a toner and a non-volatile carrier liquid, and develops the electrostatic latent image formed on the surface of the electrostatic latent image holding member by the liquid developer to form a toner image, a transfer device that transfers the toner image onto a surface of an impermeable recording medium, and a fixing device, wherein when the SP value of the toner is set as SP(t), the SP value of the non-volatile carrier liquid is set as SP(c), and the SP value of the recording medium is set as SP(m), an absolute value of a difference between SP(t) and SP(c) is from 1.5 to 7.0 and the following relational expression (A) is satisfied: |SP(c)?SP(m)|>|SP(t)?SP(m)|.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2014Publication date: April 16, 2015Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi TATSUURA, Yutaka NOGAMI, Keitaro MORI, Yoshihiro INABA, Takako KOBAYASHI, Daisuke YOSHINO