Patents by Inventor Ken Ohmura

Ken Ohmura 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).

  • Patent number: 9703218
    Abstract: A toner for developing electrostatic images contains a first resin and a second resin. The first resin is a crystalline polyester resin composed of a dicarboxylic acid unit and a dialcohol unit. The first resin has a weight average molecular weight of 5000 to 100000. The second resin has a weight average molecular weight of 5000 to 60000. The second resin is a polyester resin composed of a crystalline segment and an amorphous segment. The crystalline segment has a weight average molecular weight of 200 to 3000 and is composed of a dicarboxylic acid unit and a dialcohol unit. In the toner, a specific carbon number relationship is present between each unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Tomomi Oshiba, Ken Ohmura, Kaori Matsushima, Noboru Ueda, Ito Koga, Noriyuki Kimpara
  • Patent number: 9670646
    Abstract: A wheel loader includes: an exhaust gas aftertreatment device disposed above an engine and housed in an engine compartment along with the engine; an upper exterior cover covering an upper side of the engine compartment; an air inlet through which a cooling air is introduced into the engine compartment; and a fan configured to supply the cooling air to the engine compartment through the air inlet. The exhaust gas aftertreatment device includes a treatment unit configured to treat exhaust gas and is oriented with a longitudinal direction of the treatment unit being parallel with a vehicle front-rear direction. The air inlet is disposed at a front side of the exhaust gas aftertreatment device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventor: Ken Ohmura
  • Patent number: 9556586
    Abstract: A wheel loader includes: an upper exterior cover covering an upper side of an engine compartment housing an engine; an exhaust heat vent provided to the upper exterior cover; and a first gutter member and a second gutter member disposed below the exhaust heat vent, the first gutter member and the second gutter member each having a lateral surface defining a rise portion rising from a bottom, the rise portion being attached to the upper exterior cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventor: Ken Ohmura
  • Publication number: 20160265194
    Abstract: A wheel loader includes: an exhaust gas aftertreatment device disposed above an engine and housed in an engine compartment along with the engine; an upper exterior cover covering an upper side of the engine compartment; an air inlet through which a cooling air is introduced into the engine compartment; and a fan configured to supply the cooling air to the engine compartment through the air inlet. The exhaust gas aftertreatment device includes a treatment unit configured to treat exhaust gas and is oriented with a longitudinal direction of the treatment unit being parallel with a vehicle front-rear direction. The air inlet is disposed at a front side of the exhaust gas aftertreatment device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventor: Ken OHMURA
  • Publication number: 20160265193
    Abstract: A wheel loader includes: an upper exterior cover covering an upper side of an engine compartment housing an engine; an exhaust heat vent provided to the upper exterior cover; and a first gutter member and a second gutter member disposed below the exhaust heat vent, the first gutter member and the second gutter member each having a lateral surface defining a rise portion rising from a bottom, the rise portion being attached to the upper exterior cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventor: Ken OHMURA
  • Patent number: 9360783
    Abstract: The toner includes: a second amorphous polyester resin including a structural unit represented by any of the following general formulas (1) to (3); and a first amorphous polyester resin including no structural units represented by the general formulas (1) to (3). R1, R2, R5, R9 and R10 are each independently an alkyl group having 4 to 15 carbon atoms or an alkenyl group having 4 to 15 carbon atoms, R3, R4, R7, R8 and R11 are each independently an alkylene group having 4 to 14 carbon atoms or an alkenylene group having 4 to 14 carbon atoms, R6 is a saturated or unsaturated divalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 4 to 15 carbon atoms, and R12 is a saturated or unsaturated trivalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 4 to 14 carbon atoms, and X is an aromatic ring, a carbocyclic ring or a group represented by the following formula (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoko Mine, Anju Hori, Ken Ohmura, Mikio Kouyama
  • Patent number: 9354535
    Abstract: To provide a toner for electrostatic charge image development which allows obtainment of excellent low temperature fixability and a document off-set resistance sufficiently and also inhibition of an excessive increase in glossiness of a formed fixed image, and a method for manufacturing the same. The toner for electrostatic charge image development includes toner particles containing a binder resin, a colorant, and a releasing agent, in which the binder resin contains at least an amorphous resin and an urethane modified crystalline resin including a crystalline polymer segment and an urethane polymer segment bound to each other, the urethane modified crystalline resin being non-compatible with the amorphous resin, and the amount of ionic dissociating group of the urethane modified crystalline resin is 5 to 20 mgKOH/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Mikio Kouyama, Natsuko Fujisaki, Asao Matsushima, Ken Ohmura, Tatsuya Nagase
  • Patent number: 9268245
    Abstract: The toner is a low-environmental load toner for electrostatic image development. The toner includes toner particles containing a resin. The resin contains a vinyl polymer having a structural unit represented by the following general formula (1). In the formula, R1 to R5 are each a hydrogen atom, an alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or —OCOR6 (R6 is an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms), at least two of R1 to R5 are hydrogen atoms, and at least one thereof is an alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or —OCOR6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Mikio Kouyama, Ken Ohmura
  • Publication number: 20150234306
    Abstract: To provide a toner for electrostatic charge image development which allows obtainment of excellent low temperature fixability and a document off-set resistance sufficiently and also inhibition of an excessive increase in glossiness of a formed fixed image, and a method for manufacturing the same. The toner for electrostatic charge image development includes toner particles containing a binder resin, a colorant, and a releasing agent, in which the binder resin contains at least an amorphous resin and an urethane modified crystalline resin including a crystalline polymer segment and an urethane polymer segment bound to each other, the urethane modified crystalline resin being non-compatible with the amorphous resin, and the amount of ionic dissociating group of the urethane modified crystalline resin is 5 to 20 mgKOH/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Mikio KOUYAMA, Natsuko FUJISAKI, Asao MATSUSHIMA, Ken OHMURA, Tatsuya NAGASE
  • Patent number: 9028965
    Abstract: Disclosed are heat storage microcapsules encapsulating a water-soluble heat storage material stably and certainly, heat storage microcapsules with high durability which prevent phase separation of an inorganic salt hydrate latent heat storage material, heat storage microcapsules which prevent supercooling of a latent heat storage material to exhibit stable heat history and a manufacturing method thereof. The heat storage microcapsules comprise a core covered with a shell, wherein the core contains (a) at least one water-soluble latent heat storage material selected from a salt hydrate and a sugar alcohol and (b) a polymer derived from a water-soluble monomer mixture of a water-soluble monofunctional monomer and a water-soluble multifunctional monomer, and the shell is composed of a hydrophobic resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikio Kouyama, Ken Ohmura
  • Publication number: 20150099223
    Abstract: Provided is a toner for developing electrostatic images having excellent low temperature fixability and heat resistance storability. In order to achieve at least one of the aforementioned purposes, provided is a toner for developing electrostatic images containing a first resin which is a crystalline polyester resin consisting of a dicarboxylic acid unit and a dialcohol unit (weight average molecular weight is 5000 to 100000); a second resin (weight average molecular weight is 5000 to 60000) which is a polyester resin consisting of a crystalline segment (weight average molecular weight is 200 to 3000), which consists of a dicarboxylic acid unit and a dialcohol unit, and an amorphous segment, in which a specific carbon number relationship is present between each unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Inventors: Tokyo OSHIBA, Ken OHMURA, Kaori MATSUSHIMA, Noboru UEDA, Ito KOGA, Noriyuki KIMPARA
  • Publication number: 20140377700
    Abstract: Provided is a toner for electrostatic image development, having both sufficient low-temperature fixability and good post-fixing separability simultaneously. The toner for electrostatic image development includes: a second amorphous polyester resin including a structural unit represented by any of the following general formulas (1) to (3); and a first amorphous polyester resin including no structural units represented by the general formulas (1) to (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Tomoko MINE, Anju Hori, Ken Ohmura, Mikio Kouyama
  • Patent number: 8871419
    Abstract: The toner for electrostatic image development has excellent charge properties, by which excellent toner particle size-controlling ability is achieved, and moreover the sharpening of a particle size distribution is achieved. The toner is composed of toner particles containing a binder resin. The process has an aggregating step of adding an aggregating agent containing a transition element into an aqueous medium of dispersed fine binder resin particles to aggregate the fine binder resin particles, and an aggregation-stopping step of adding an aggregation stopper composed on a sulfur atom-containing compound exhibiting a reducing action on the aggregating agent. The aggregating agent is a salt of a bivalent or higher metal selected from Sr, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni and Cu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Saburou Hiraoka, Tomomi Oshiba, Mikihiko Sukeno, Tomoko Mine, Hitomi Motani, Tatsuya Nagase, Ken Ohmura
  • Patent number: 8844832
    Abstract: The non-contact information recording medium is made by forming the antenna circuit and connecting it to the IC module through connection terminals at the same time. This provides a high degree of freedom of patterning of the antenna circuit. The antenna circuit is formed on a recording substrate, in which an IC module has been embedded. A foil-bonding resin layer is formed on the connection terminals of the recording substrate, with a toner containing a binder resin by an electrophotographic method. Then a conductive foil is brought into contact with the foil-bonding resin layer to bond the foil to the resin layer, to connect the antenna circuit to the connection terminals and form the antenna circuit composed of the conductive foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu Matsumoto, Ryuichi Hiramoto, Aya Shirai, Asao Matsushima, Ken Ohmura
  • Patent number: 8748073
    Abstract: A toner comprising a modified polyester resin containing a structure represented by Formula (1a) or (1b), wherein, in Formula (1a) and (1b), R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, or an ethyl group, R2 represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon which may be branched, or an aromatic hydrocarbon, and R3 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a phenyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nagasawa, Ken Ohmura
  • Patent number: 8722295
    Abstract: Disclosed are a low-environmental load toner for electrostatic image development and a production process of the toner. The toner for electrostatic image development includes toner particles containing a resin. The resin contains a vinyl polymer having a structural unit represented by the following general formula (1): [in the general formula (1), R1 is a hydrogen atom, —CH2OH, —CH2OR2, or —CH2O(C?O)R3, and R2 and R3 are each an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikio Kouyama, Ken Ohmura
  • Patent number: 8669033
    Abstract: Provided is a toner containing toner particles containing a polyester resin which has a structure part represented by Formula (1): wherein, “A” represents a polyester structure unit having at least one linking group; R1 represents a hydrogen atom, or a chlorine atom; R2 represents a hydrogen atom, a chlorine atom, or a methoxy group; and “L” represents a divalent organic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikio Kouyama, Ken Ohmura, Kenji Hayashi, Hiroaki Obata, Koji Shibata
  • Patent number: 8652728
    Abstract: A toner comprising toner particles containing a binder resin comprising a crystalline polyester resin, a non-crystalline polyester resin and an acryl resin having a cross-link structure, and the acryl resin having a cross-link structure has a cross-link site derived from a crosslinking agent represented by the following formula (1): CH2?CR1—C(?O)O—Z—OC(?O)—CR2?CH2??Formula (1) wherein R1 and R2 are each a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group of 1 to 3 carbon atoms, and Z is a hydrocarbon group of 2 to 90 carbon atoms, provided that the hydrocarbon group may include an ether linkage, an ester linkage, a heterocyclic ring or a substituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoko Mine, Mikihiko Sukeno, Hajime Tadokoro, Ken Ohmura, Tatsuya Nagase, Tomomi Oshiba, Saburou Hiraoka
  • Patent number: 8642242
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing toner by which the toner capable of forming high quality images and reproducing high density gradation, which exhibits an excellent high-temperature offsetting property together with excellent low-temperature fixability, and provides appropriate gloss with respect to images to be formed, can be stably prepared; and also provided is the toner. After conducting a step in which particles made of at least a crystalline polyester resin are coagulated to form core coagulated particles, and an unsaturated amorphous polyester resin particle is attached onto the surface of each of the core coagulated particles to form core-shell type coagulated particles, radical polymerization reaction is conducted by acting a radical polymerization initiator on the foregoing core-shell type coagulated particles to conduct a step in which a layer made of a crosslinking amorphous polyester resin is formed on the surface of each of the core coagulated particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Saburou Hiraoka, Mikihiko Sukeno, Hajime Tadokoro, Ken Ohmura, Tatsuya Nagase, Tomomi Oshiba, Kenji Hayashi, Tomoko Mine
  • Publication number: 20130323639
    Abstract: A toner comprising a modified polyester resin containing a structure represented by Formula (1a) or (1b), wherein, in Formula (1a) and (1b), R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, or an ethyl group, R2 represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon which may be branched, or an aromatic hydrocarbon, and R3 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a phenyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi NAGASAWA, Ken OHMURA