Patents by Inventor Ken Kikuchi
Ken Kikuchi 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: 20240105758Abstract: The present technology relates to a light source apparatus that makes it possible to provide a widely applicable light source apparatus. A light source apparatus includes a transmissive board that transmits light emitted by a light-emitting element, a circuit board that drives the light-emitting element and is joined to the transmissive board, and a light-emitting board that has the light-emitting element and is connected to the circuit board via a first bump. Further, in the light source apparatus, the circuit board and an organic board are configured to be connected by sandwiching the light-emitting board via second bumps. The present technology can be applied to a light source apparatus that emits light.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2020Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: HIIZU OHTORII, HIROSHI MORITA, YUSUKE OYAMA, EIJI OTANI, KEN KIKUCHI
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Publication number: 20240107677Abstract: The present technology relates to an electronic circuit board, a base member, electronic equipment, an electronic equipment manufacturing method and an electronic circuit board manufacturing method that make it possible to mount an electronic circuit board easily on a curved surface, for example. An electronic circuit board has a deformable wiring board having a plurality of areas that is long in one direction and is formed to be partially continuous with each other, and the plurality of areas of the wiring board is provided with deformable plate-like plate members that are more rigid than the wiring board. For example, the present technology can be applied to an electronic circuit board on which various devices are mounted.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2020Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: HIIZU OHTORII, HIROSHI MORITA, YUSUKE OYAMA, EIJI OTANI, KEN KIKUCHI
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Publication number: 20240081167Abstract: An agricultural work assistance system includes a display to display a map representing an agricultural field, and a controller configured or programmed to define or function as an area setter to set a first area and a second area located inward of the first area in the map displayed by the display, and a route creator to create, in at least one of the first area or the second area, a travel route along which an agricultural machine is to travel. The route creator is configured or programmed to set at least a portion of the travel route as an automatic steering route on which the agricultural machine is to be automatically steered and a travel speed of the agricultural machine is to be changed manually.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Takanori MORIMOTO, Takafumi MORISHITA, Kenji TAMATANI, Fumiya YOSHIMURA, Ryota KIKUCHI, Ken SAKUTA
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Patent number: 11899393Abstract: A photosensitive member unit includes a photosensitive member, a transfer roller, a mounting portion capable of mounting a development unit including a development roller, a first gear and a second gear each provided at one end of the photosensitive member in an axial direction of the photosensitive member, and a third gear provided at one end of the transfer roller in an axial direction of the photosensitive member and configured to engage with the second gear. The first gear, the second gear, and the third gear are helical gears. A direction in which helical teeth of the first gear are inclined is opposite to a direction in which helical teeth of the second gear are inclined, and the direction in which the helical teeth of the first gear are inclined matches a direction in which helical teeth of the third gear are inclined.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masao Uyama, Kenji Matsuda, Ken Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20240005861Abstract: A light-emitting device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a pixel circuit including a light-emitting part; and a gradation controller that performs gradation control. The pixel circuit includes a light emission time controller that controls a light emission time of the light-emitting part, and an amplitude modulator that includes an output transistor coupled in series to the light-emitting part. The gradation controller performs the gradation control by performing, via the light emission time controller, on/off control on the output transistor of the amplitude modulator, and modulation control on the amplitude modulator.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Ken KIKUCHI
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Publication number: 20230418218Abstract: A photosensitive member unit includes a photosensitive member, a transfer roller, a mounting portion capable of mounting a development unit including a development roller, a first gear and a second gear each provided at one end of the photosensitive member in an axial direction of the photosensitive member, and a third gear provided at one end of the transfer roller in an axial direction of the photosensitive member and configured to engage with the second gear. The first gear, the second gear, and the third gear are helical gears. A direction in which helical teeth of the first gear are inclined is opposite to a direction in which helical teeth of the second gear are inclined, and the direction in which the helical teeth of the first gear are inclined matches a direction in which helical teeth of the third gear are inclined.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Masao Uyama, Kenji Matsuda, Ken Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20230359141Abstract: An electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum; a developing cartridge including a developing roller for developing a latent image formed on the drum, a developer accommodating portion for accommodating a developer to be used by the developing roller to develop the electrostatic latent image, and a developing roller shutter movable between a protecting position for covering a part of a peripheral surface of the developing roller and a retracted position, retracted from the protecting position, for exposure the part of the peripheral surface of the developing roller, wherein the developing cartridge is detachably mountable to a main assembly of the apparatus; a cartridge supporting member movable, while detachably mounting the developing cartridge, between an inside position which is inside of the main assembly of the apparatus to Mount the developing cartridge to the main assembly of the apparatus and an outside position which is outside of the main assemblyType: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventor: Ken Kikuchi
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Patent number: 11789403Abstract: A photosensitive member cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an image forming apparatus for forming an image, includes a frame; a photosensitive drum on which and which is provided in the frame; a transfer member for transferring an image formed on the drum onto the sheet; a mounting portion for detachably mounting a developing cartridge including a developer carrying member onto the drum and a memory for storing information; a first electrical contact provided on the frame and electrically connectable with a main assembly electrical contact provided in the main assembly when the cartridge is mounted to the main assembly; and a second electrical contact provided on the frame for electrically connecting the memory and the first electrical contact portion with each other when the developing cartridge is mounted to the mounting portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Jun Miyamoto, Masao Uyama, Kenji Matsuda, Ken Kikuchi, Jun Miyazaki
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Patent number: 11747764Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first unit movable to a first inside position of a main assembly and a second unit movable to a second inside position of the main assembly. The first unit includes a first shutter that is rotatable from a first position in which the first shutter opposes a surface of an image bearing member and covers a part of the surface of the image bearing member to a second position in which the first shutter opens the part of the surface of the image bearing member. The second unit includes a second shutter provided with a second contacting portion, with the second shutter being rotatable from a third position in which the second shutter opposes a surface of a developing member and covers a part of the surface of the developing member to a fourth position in which the second shutter opens the part of the surface of the developing member.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Ken Kikuchi
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Patent number: 11651720Abstract: A display device of the present disclosure is provided with a pixel circuit that includes a light-emitting element; a current modulator that controls a current value flowing through the light-emitting element; a current breaker that interrupts a current flowing through the light-emitting element; and a gray-scale controller that controls the current modulator and the current breaker to perform gray-scale control. The gray-scale controller discretely controls a light emission duty of the light-emitting element through the current breaker, and controls, through the current modulator, the current value flowing through the light-emitting element in accordance with the light emission duty of the light-emitting element.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Ken Kikuchi, Takaaki Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20230052164Abstract: A photosensitive member cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an image forming apparatus for forming an image, includes a frame; a photosensitive drum on which and which is provided in the frame; a transfer member for transferring an image formed on the drum onto the sheet; a mounting portion for detachably mounting a developing cartridge including a developer carrying member onto the drum and a memory for storing information; a first electrical contact provided on the frame and electrically connectable with a main assembly electrical contact provided in the main assembly when the cartridge is mounted to the main assembly; and a second electrical contact provided on the frame for electrically connecting the memory and the first electrical contact portion with each other when the developing cartridge is mounted to the mounting portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2022Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: Jun Miyamoto, Masao Uyama, Kenji Matsuda, Ken Kikuchi, Jun Miyazaki
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Publication number: 20230023224Abstract: A photosensitive member unit includes a photosensitive member, a transfer roller, a mounting portion capable of mounting a development unit including a development roller, a first gear and a second gear each provided at one end of the photosensitive member in an axial direction of the photosensitive member, and a third gear provided at one end of the transfer roller in an axial direction of the photosensitive member and configured to engage with the second gear. The first gear, the second gear, and the third gear are helical gears. A direction in which helical teeth of the first gear are inclined is opposite to a direction in which helical teeth of the second gear are inclined, and the direction in which the helical teeth of the first gear are inclined matches a direction in which helical teeth of the third gear are inclined.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Inventors: Masao Uyama, Kenji Matsuda, Ken Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20220407467Abstract: A Doherty amplifier includes a first amplifier that includes first output fingers and a first output electrode connected to the first output fingers, a second amplifier that includes second output fingers and a second output electrode connected to the second output fingers, a first bonding wire connected between a first region in the first output electrode and a second region in the second output electrode, a second bonding wire connected between a third region in the first output electrode and a fourth region in the second output electrode, and at least one of a first capacitor connected in series with the first bonding wire, and a second capacitor connected in parallel with the second bonding wire, wherein the first and the third regions are regions to which the first output fingers are connected, and the second and the fourth regions are regions to which second output fingers are connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Ken KIKUCHI
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Patent number: 11487240Abstract: A photosensitive member unit includes a photosensitive member, a transfer roller, a mounting portion capable of mounting a development unit including a development roller, a first gear and a second gear each provided at one end of the photosensitive member in an axial direction of the photosensitive member, and a third gear provided at one end of the transfer roller in an axial direction of the photosensitive member and configured to engage with the second gear. The first gear, the second gear, and the third gear are helical gears. A direction in which helical teeth of the first gear are inclined is opposite to a direction in which helical teeth of the second gear are inclined, and the direction in which the helical teeth of the first gear are inclined matches a direction in which helical teeth of the third gear are inclined.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masao Uyama, Kenji Matsuda, Ken Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20220342360Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first unit movable to a first inside position of a main assembly and a second unit movable to a second inside position of the main assembly. The first unit includes a first shutter that is rotatable from a first position in which the first shutter opposes a surface of an image bearing member and covers a part of the surface of the image bearing member to a second position in which the first shutter opens the part of the surface of the image bearing member. The second unit includes a second shutter provided with a second contacting portion, with the second shutter being rotatable from a third position in which the second shutter opposes a surface of a developing member and covers a part of the surface of the developing member to a fourth position in which the second shutter opens the part of the surface of the developing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventor: Ken Kikuchi
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Patent number: 11409226Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first unit that is movable to a first inside position of the main assembly. The first unit includes a first shutter provided with a first contacting portion. The apparatus also includes a second unit movable to a second inside position of the main assembly. The second unit includes a second shutter provided with a second contacting portion. The main assembly includes a first contacted portion causing the first shutter to move from a first position toward a second position by contacting of the first contacting portion while moving the first unit to the first inside position, and a second contacted portion causing the second shutter to move from a third position toward a fourth position by contacting of the second contacting portion while moving the second unit to the second inside position.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Ken Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20220214645Abstract: A photosensitive member cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an image forming apparatus for forming an image, includes a frame; a photosensitive drum on which and which is provided in the frame; a transfer member for transferring an image formed on the drum onto the sheet; a mounting portion for detachably mounting a developing cartridge including a developer carrying member onto the drum and a memory for storing information; a first electrical contact provided on the frame and electrically connectable with a main assembly electrical contact provided in the main assembly when the cartridge is mounted to the main assembly; and a second electrical contact provided on the frame for electrically connecting the memory and the first electrical contact portion with each other when the developing cartridge is mounted to the mounting portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2022Publication date: July 7, 2022Inventors: Jun Miyamoto, Masao Uyama, Kenji Matsuda, Ken Kikuchi, Jun Miyazaki
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Publication number: 20220208066Abstract: A display device of the present disclosure is provided with a pixel circuit that includes a light-emitting element; a current modulator that controls a current value flowing through the light-emitting element; a current breaker that interrupts a current flowing through the light-emitting element; and a gray-scale controller that controls the current modulator and the current breaker to perform gray-scale control. The gray-scale controller discretely controls a light emission duty of the light-emitting element through the current breaker, and controls, through the current modulator, the current value flowing through the light-emitting element in accordance with the light emission duty of the light-emitting element.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Ken KIKUCHI, Takaaki SUGIYAMA
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Patent number: 11360424Abstract: A gear unit for transmitting a rotational force to a rotatable member carrying developer and to which a coupling member is mountable. The gear unit includes a hole portion which opens outwardly in a direction along a rotational axis of the cylinder gear and which has an opening capable of accommodating the spherical portion, a groove portion which continues from the hole portion and which is capable of accommodating the projected portion, and a limiting portion for limiting inward movement of the spherical portion in the direction along the rotational axis of the gear. A closing member is provided for partially covering the opening of the hole portion and mounted to the gear to limit outward movement of the spherical portion in the direction along the rotational axis of the gear. The closing member is constituted by a plurality of independent pieces.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ken Kikuchi, Yoshiyuki Batori
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Patent number: 11328655Abstract: A display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; and a drive device that outputs a driving signal to the display panel. The driving signal causes one of the pixels to emit light many times by an active PWM drive method in a 1-frame period.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignees: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Sony CorporationInventors: Takaaki Sugiyama, Ken Kikuchi, Atsushi Yasuda, Hirokazu Imai, Hiroshi Tobita