Patents by Inventor Kenji Karashima
Kenji Karashima 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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Patent number: 11052609Abstract: A molding system to manufacture a three-dimensional object corresponding to a three-dimensional model. The molding apparatus includes a slice data generation unit to generate slice data from three-dimensional shape data of the three-dimensional model, and a lamination unit to laminate a layer of a molding material on the basis of the slice data. The slice data generation unit analyzes data, and, if a region in which a layer of a second molding material different from a first molding material is to be laminated on a layer of the first molding material and in which it is difficult to laminate the layers is extracted, modifies the data of a region of at least one of an ith layer and an (i+1)th layer to data in which a portion in which the first molding material is disposed and a portion in which the second molding material is disposed.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2016Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirokazu Usami, Tatsuya Tada, Kenji Karashima, Genya Anan, Takashi Kase, Satoru Yamanaka, Yuji Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 10357956Abstract: A shaping apparatus includes a storage section that stores in advance a first relationship between a temperature of a shaping material and a heating time at a time at which oxidation of the shaping material starts as the shaping material is heated; and a control section that estimates a timing at which the oxidation of a material layer starts, based on an acquisition result from a temperature acquisition section, a measurement result from a time measurement section, and the first relationship stored in the storage section when the material layer on a conveyance body is preheated by a preheating section, and reduces a front surface temperature of the material layer on the conveyance body before the oxidation of the material layer starts.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2017Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirokazu Usami, Tatsuya Tada, Kenji Karashima, Genya Anan, Takashi Kase, Satoru Yamanaka, Yuji Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20190056688Abstract: Occurrence of layering defects is suppressed in a layering forming method where material layers on a conveyance member are heated and layered. A forming apparatus 1 configured to sequentially layer a plurality of material layers and form a three-dimensional object includes a stage having a forming face on which the material layers are layered, a conveyance member configured to support and convey the material layers to a layering position facing the forming face, and a heating member configured to nip the material layers between itself and the forming face of the stage at the layering position, and pressurize and heat the material layer. When a heating region of the heating member is perpendicularly projected onto a plane where a supporting face at which the conveyance member supports the material layer exists, a projection plane of the heating region has extending regions that extend further to the outer side from both edges of the supporting face, on both edges of the projection plane of the heating region.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2018Publication date: February 21, 2019Inventors: Yuji Wakabayashi, Tatsuya Tada, Hirokazu Usami, Kenji Karashima, Genya Anan, Takashi Kase, Satoru Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20190001578Abstract: A molding system to manufacture a three-dimensional object corresponding to a three-dimensional model. The molding apparatus includes a slice data generation unit to generate slice data from three-dimensional shape data of the three-dimensional model, and a lamination unit to laminate a layer of a molding material on the basis of the slice data. The slice data generation unit analyzes data, and, if a region in which a layer of a second molding material different from a first molding material is to be laminated on a layer of the first molding material and in which it is difficult to laminate the layers is extracted, modifies the data of a region of at least one of an ith layer and an (i+1)th layer to data in which a portion in which the first molding material is disposed and a portion in which the second molding material is disposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2016Publication date: January 3, 2019Inventors: Hirokazu Usami, Tatsuya Tada, Kenji Karashima, Genya Anan, Takashi Kase, Satoru Yamanaka, Yuji Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 9851681Abstract: An image forming apparatus sequentially transfers toner images formed on a plurality of photosensitive drums onto an intermediate transfer member or a transfer material to form an image. The image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer belt provided with electrical conductivity, and a power supply for applying a voltage to a secondary transfer roller to pass a current from the secondary transfer roller to the plurality of photosensitive drums via the intermediate transfer belt, thus primarily transferring the toner images from the plurality of photosensitive drums onto the intermediate transfer belt.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2017Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshikuni Ito, Yasuhiro Horiguchi, Takayuki Tanaka, Kenji Karashima, Satoshi Tsuruya, Shinichi Nishida, Takeshi Fujino
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Publication number: 20170232673Abstract: A shaping apparatus includes a storage section that stores in advance a first relationship between a temperature of a shaping material and a heating time at a time at which oxidation of the shaping material starts as the shaping material is heated; and a control section that estimates a timing at which the oxidation of a material layer starts, based on an acquisition result from a temperature acquisition section, a measurement result from a time measurement section, and the first relationship stored in the storage section when the material layer on a conveyance body is preheated by a preheating section, and reduces a front surface temperature of the material layer on the conveyance body before the oxidation of the material layer starts.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2017Publication date: August 17, 2017Inventors: Hirokazu Usami, Tatsuya Tada, Kenji Karashima, Genya Anan, Takashi Kase, Satoru Yamanaka, Yuji Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20170146943Abstract: An image forming apparatus sequentially transfers toner images formed on a plurality of photosensitive drums onto an intermediate transfer member or a transfer material to form an image. The image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer belt provided with electrical conductivity, and a power supply for applying a voltage to a secondary transfer roller to pass a current from the secondary transfer roller to the plurality of photosensitive drums via the intermediate transfer belt, thus primarily transferring the toner images from the plurality of photosensitive drums onto the intermediate transfer belt.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2017Publication date: May 25, 2017Inventors: Yoshikuni Ito, Yasuhiro Horiguchi, Takayuki Tanaka, Kenji Karashima, Satoshi Tsuruya, Shinichi Nishida, Takeshi Fujino
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Patent number: 9588465Abstract: An image forming apparatus sequentially transfers toner images formed on a plurality of photosensitive drums onto an intermediate transfer member or a transfer material to form an image. The image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer belt provided with electrical conductivity, and a power supply for applying a voltage to a secondary transfer roller to pass a current from the secondary transfer roller to the plurality of photosensitive drums via the intermediate transfer belt, thus primarily transferring the toner images from the plurality of photosensitive drums onto the intermediate transfer belt.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2015Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshikuni Ito, Yasuhiro Horiguchi, Takayuki Tanaka, Kenji Karashima, Satoshi Tsuruya, Shinichi Nishida, Takeshi Fujino
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Patent number: 9547272Abstract: To provide a cleaning blade having an elastic body portion containing urethane rubber and a support member supporting the elastic body portion. A free end portion of the elastic body has a first region in which the Young's modulus gradually decreases in the depth direction from the principal surface facing the surface of the member to be cleaned on the edge face side and a second region in which the Young's modulus does not vary in the depth direction from the principal surface on the side closer to the support member relative to the first region.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2015Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shingo Ito, Kenji Karashima, Masaya Kawada, Tomohiro Tanoue, Masahiro Watabe
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Patent number: 9541887Abstract: A cleaning blade includes an image region and a non-image region in which Young's moduli at positions separated by a distance of L ?m from an edge portion in contact with an photosensitive drum are respectively defined as YL and Y?L, Y0 and Y?0 are 10 mgf/?m2 or more and 400 mgf/?m2 or less, Y50/Y0 is 0.5 or less, [{(Y0?Y20)/Y0}/(20?0)] is equal to or more than [{(Y20?Y50)/Y0}/(50?20)] and, the Young's modulus Y50 ?the Young's modulus Y?L where L satisfies 0?L ?100 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2015Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masanobu Nakajima, Norihiko Kubo, Hisataka Hisakuni, Masaya Kawada, Kenji Karashima
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Patent number: 9501000Abstract: The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus that forms an image by consecutively superposing toner images that have been formed on a plurality of photosensitive drums, on an intermediate transfer member or a transfer medium. The image forming apparatus is made compact and operates at a low cost. Since a current supply member supplies a current in a rotational direction of an intermediate transfer belt, multiple first transfer portions do not need corresponding voltage sources. Even in the case where a charging member supplies a current, the potential of the intermediate transfer belt is maintained at a predetermined potential by a constant-voltage element connected to support rollers.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Karashima, Satoshi Tsuruya, Yoshikuni Ito, Yasuhiro Horiguchi, Takeshi Fujino, Takahiro Kawamoto, Takayuki Tanaka, Osamu Iwasaki, Kazunari Hagiwara
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Publication number: 20160124375Abstract: A cleaning blade includes an image region and a non-image region in which Young's moduli at positions separated by a distance of L ?m from an edge portion in contact with an photosensitive drum are respectively defined as YL and Y?L, Y0 and Y?0 are 10 mgf/?m2 or more and 400 mgf/?m2 or less, Y50/Y0 is 0.5 or less, [{(Y0?Y20)/Y0}/(20?0)] is equal to or more than [{(Y20?Y50)/Y0}/(50?20)] and, the Young's modulus Y50 the Young's modulus Y?L where L satisfies 0?L?100 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2015Publication date: May 5, 2016Inventors: Masanobu Nakajima, Norihiko Kubo, Hisataka Hisakuni, Masaya Kawada, Kenji Karashima
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Publication number: 20160124376Abstract: To provide a cleaning blade having an elastic body portion containing urethane rubber and a support member supporting the elastic body portion. A free end portion of the elastic body has a first region in which the Young's modulus gradually decreases in the depth direction from the principal surface facing the surface of the member to be cleaned on the edge face side and a second region in which the Young's modulus does not vary in the depth direction from the principal surface on the side closer to the support member relative to the first region.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2015Publication date: May 5, 2016Inventors: Shingo Ito, Kenji Karashima, Masaya Kawada, Tomohiro Tanoue, Masahiro Watabe
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Publication number: 20160097994Abstract: An image forming apparatus sequentially transfers toner images formed on a plurality of photosensitive drums onto an intermediate transfer member or a transfer material to form an image. The image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer belt provided with electrical conductivity, and a power supply for applying a voltage to a secondary transfer roller to pass a current from the secondary transfer roller to the plurality of photosensitive drums via the intermediate transfer belt, thus primarily transferring the toner images from the plurality of photosensitive drums onto the intermediate transfer belt.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2015Publication date: April 7, 2016Inventors: Yoshikuni Ito, Yasuhiro Horiguchi, Takayuki Tanaka, Kenji Karashima, Satoshi Tsuruya, Shinichi Nishida, Takeshi Fujino
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Publication number: 20160070194Abstract: The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus that forms an image by consecutively superposing toner images that have been formed on a plurality of photosensitive drums, on an intermediate transfer member or a transfer medium. The image forming apparatus is made compact and operates at a low cost. Since a current supply member supplies a current in a rotational direction of an intermediate transfer belt, multiple first transfer portions do not need corresponding voltage sources. Even in the case where a charging member supplies a current, the potential of the intermediate transfer belt is maintained at a predetermined potential by a constant-voltage element connected to support rollers.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Kenji Karashima, Satoshi Tsuruya, Yoshikuni Ito, Yasuhiro Horiguchi, Takeshi Fujino, Takahiro Kawamoto, Takayuki Tanaka, Osamu Iwasaki, Kazunari Hagiwara
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Patent number: 9229400Abstract: An image forming apparatus sequentially transfers toner images formed on a plurality of photosensitive drums onto an intermediate transfer member or a transfer material to form an image. The image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer belt provided with electrical conductivity, and a power supply for applying a voltage to a secondary transfer roller to pass a current from the secondary transfer roller to the plurality of photosensitive drums via the intermediate transfer belt, thus primarily transferring the toner images from the plurality of photosensitive drums onto the intermediate transfer belt.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshikuni Ito, Yasuhiro Horiguchi, Takayuki Tanaka, Kenji Karashima, Satoshi Tsuruya, Shinichi Nishida, Takeshi Fujino
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Patent number: 9217962Abstract: The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus that forms an image by consecutively superposing toner images that have been formed on a plurality of photosensitive drums, on an intermediate transfer member or a transfer medium. The image forming apparatus is made compact and operates at a low cost. Since a current supply member supplies a current in a rotational direction of an intermediate transfer belt, multiple first transfer portions do not need corresponding voltage sources. Even in the case where a charging member supplies a current, the potential of the intermediate transfer belt is maintained at a predetermined potential by a constant-voltage element connected to support rollers.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2011Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Karashima, Satoshi Tsuruya, Yoshikuni Ito, Yasuhiro Horiguchi, Takeshi Fujino, Takahiro Kawamoto, Takayuki Tanaka, Osamu Iwasaki, Kazunari Hagiwara
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Patent number: 9170556Abstract: A urethane rubber cleaning blade, wherein a surface of a contact portion of the cleaning blade that comes into contact with a member to be cleaned has a Young's modulus (Y0) of 10 mgf/?m2 or more and 400 mgf/?m2 or less, the ratio (Y50/Y0) of the Young's modulus (Y50) of an internal portion of the cleaning blade 50 ?m spaced apart from the surface of the contact portion to the Young's modulus (Y0) is 0.5 or less, and the average rate of change in Young's modulus from the surface to an internal portion of the cleaning blade 20 ?m spaced apart from the surface is greater than or equal to the average rate of change in Young's modulus from the internal portion of the cleaning blade 20 ?m spaced apart from the surface to an internal portion of the cleaning blade 50 ?m spaced apart from the surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Karashima, Masaya Kawada, Tomohiro Tanoue, Masahiro Watabe, Shingo Ito
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Publication number: 20140321891Abstract: The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus that forms an image by consecutively superposing toner images that have been formed on a plurality of photosensitive drums, on an intermediate transfer member or a transfer medium. The image forming apparatus is made compact and operates at a low cost. Since a current supply member supplies a current in a rotational direction of an intermediate transfer belt, multiple first transfer portions do not need corresponding voltage sources. Even in the case where a charging member supplies a current, the potential of the intermediate transfer belt is maintained at a predetermined potential by a constant-voltage element connected to support rollers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2011Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji Karashima, Satoshi Tsuruya, Yoshikuni Ito, Yasuhiro Horiguchi, Takeshi Fujino, Takahiro Kawamoto, Takayuki Tanaka, Osamu Iwasaki, Kazunari Hagiwara
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Publication number: 20140321880Abstract: A urethane rubber cleaning blade, wherein a surface of a contact portion of the cleaning blade that comes into contact with a member to be cleaned has a Young's modulus (Y0) of 10 mgf/?m2 or more and 400 mgf/?m2 or less, the ratio (Y50/Y0) of the Young's modulus (Y50) of an internal portion of the cleaning blade 50 ?m spaced apart from the surface of the contact portion to the Young's modulus (Y0) is 0.5 or less, and the average rate of change in Young's modulus from the surface to an internal portion of the cleaning blade 20 ?m spaced apart from the surface is greater than or equal to the average rate of change in Young's modulus from the internal portion of the cleaning blade 20 ?m spaced apart from the surface to an internal portion of the cleaning blade 50 ?m spaced apart from the surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Inventors: Kenji Karashima, Masaya Kawada, Tomohiro Tanoue, Masahiro Watabe, Shingo Ito