Patents by Inventor Kikuo Mizutani

Kikuo Mizutani 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: 10379479
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sheet binding device includes a tape support base, a tape holder, and a first displacement mechanism. The tape support base supports a tape. The tape holder is movable in a first direction. The first displacement mechanism displaces the tape holder from a first position that is a position away from the tape to a second position at which the tape holder is capable of coming into contact with the tape when the tape holder moves toward the tape support base and receives the tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takamitsu Sunaoshi, Misato Ishikawa, Takahiro Kokubo, Shunsuke Hattori, Kikuo Mizutani
  • Patent number: 10336117
    Abstract: An image erasing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a sheet supply portion that supplies a sheet and an ejector. A first conveying path conveys the sheet from the sheet supply portion toward the ejector. A reader arranged on the first conveying path reads an image on the sheet. A second conveying path branches from the first conveying path at a downstream of the reader on the first conveying path and merges with the first conveying path at an upstream of the reader on the first conveying path. An erasing unit is arranged on the second conveying path. A conveying path changing portion is arranged at a branching portion. An operating portion receives a setup of the processing to the sheet. A controller changes a conveying path of the sheet in accordance with the setup received by the operating portion before the sheet is supplied from the sheet supply portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ken Iguchi, Hidetoshi Yokochi, Isao Yahata, Takahiro Kawaguchi, Yoshiaki Sugizaki, Kikuo Mizutani, Hiroyuki Taki, Hiroyuki Tsuchihashi, Chiaki Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20190143733
    Abstract: A paper binding apparatus includes a pair of guides between which a paper bundle connected body formed by applying an adhesive tape to edge portions of sheets that are overlapped in a thickness direction, is moved in a reference direction while pinching the paper bundle connected body in the thickness direction, a guide plate on one side of the paper bundle connected body and downstream of the pair of guides, the guide plate having at least one guide surface that causes the paper bundle connected body guided thereby to be bent, and a driving roller configure to rotate in a first direction to move the paper bundle connected body and to cause a leading edge of the paper bundle connected body to be guided and bent by the at least one guide surface and the edge portions of the sheets to be shifted from each other in the reference direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventor: Kikuo MIZUTANI
  • Publication number: 20190143732
    Abstract: A binding mechanism has a base, a feeder, a tape cutting unit, a tape holding unit and a tape support driving unit. The feeder is supported by the base. The feeder feeds an adhesive tape. The tape cutting unit is supported by the base. The tape cutting unit cuts the fed adhesive tape. The tape holding unit can hold the fed adhesive tape. The tape support units are installed as a pair. The tape support driving unit drives the pair of tape support units such that the pair of tape support units hold the fed adhesive tape simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Takamitsu SUNAOSHI, Takahiro KOKUBO, Shunsuke HATTORI, Kikuo MIZUTANI
  • Publication number: 20190135571
    Abstract: A sheet binding device includes a sheet shifting unit, a tape cutter, and a tape attachment unit. The sheet shifting unit has a guide and is configured to stack multiple sheets on the guide with edge portions that are shifted from each other to form a sheet bundle. The tape cutter cuts tape with a target length that is varied in accordance with a thickness of the sheet bundle. The tape attachment unit is configured to attach the cut tape having the target length to an edge portion of the sheet bundle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventor: Kikuo MIZUTANI
  • Patent number: 10252877
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sheet separator has a first driving roller and a pressing body. The first driving roller rotates about a first rotation shaft. The first driving roller conveys a sheet bundle including a plurality of sheets. The pressing body is capable of approaching the first driving roller. The first driving roller is rotatable in a first direction with the sheet bundle sandwiched between the first driving roller and the pressing body. The pressing body pivots in the first direction about the first rotation shaft with the sheet bundle sandwiched between the first driving roller and the pressing body to cause the plurality of sheets to deviate from one another at edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takamitsu Sunaoshi, Misato Ishikawa, Takahiro Kokubo, Shunsuke Hattori, Kikuo Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20190047813
    Abstract: A card separation apparatus includes a movable tray having a surface onto which a sheet is conveyed after a card has been separated from the sheet, and a card separation unit mounted on the surface for movement with the movable tray, the card separation unit having an opening through which the sheet is conveyed, and a controller configured to send an instruction to the movable tray to be moved at a predetermined timing after a leading edge of the sheet to which the card is attached enters the opening, so as to cause the sheet to be initially separated from the card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventor: Kikuo MIZUTANI
  • Patent number: 10202252
    Abstract: A sheet binding device includes a sheet shifting unit, a tape cutter, and a tape attachment unit. The sheet shifting unit has a guide and is configured to stack multiple sheets on the guide with edge portions that are shifted from each other to form a sheet bundle. The tape cutter cuts tape with a target length that is varied in accordance with a thickness of the sheet bundle. The tape attachment unit is configured to attach the cut tape having the target length to an edge portion of the sheet bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kikuo Mizutani
  • Patent number: 10197954
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises a fixing section, a sheet housing section, and a sheet passing controller. The fixing section fixes a developer by heating a label paper onto which the developer is transferred. The sheet housing section houses a cleaning sheet from which adhesive leaking out from the label paper and adhering to the fixing section is removed. The sheet passing controller conveys the cleaning sheet from the sheet housing section to the fixing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kikuo Mizutani
  • Patent number: 10131174
    Abstract: An erasing apparatus of embodiments has a color erasing device, the color erasing device has: a first heating member; a second heating member provided at a position facing the first heating member so as to form a nip portion therebetween through which the sheet is passed; a halogen lamp configured to heat the second heating member from outside thereof; and a reflector provided at a position opposite to the second heating member with the halogen lamp interposed therebetween and having a reflective surface configured to reflect heat received from the halogen lamp toward the second heating member, the reflector forming a guiding section configured to be in sliding contact with the sheet being conveyed so as to guide the sheet to the nip portion, the guiding section being heated by the halogen lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tsuchihashi, Kikuo Mizutani, Hidetoshi Yokochi, Isao Yahata, Takahiro Kawaguchi, Yoshiaki Sugizaki, Hiroyuki Taki, Ken Iguchi, Chiaki Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20180321625
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sheet binding device includes a tape support base, a tape holder, and a first displacement mechanism. The tape support base supports a tape. The tape holder is movable in a first direction. The first displacement mechanism displaces the tape holder from a first position that is a position away from the tape to a second position at which the tape holder is capable of coming into contact with the tape when the tape holder moves toward the tape support base and receives the tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Takamitsu SUNAOSHI, Misato ISHIKAWA, Takahiro KOKUBO, Shunsuke HATTORI, Kikuo MIZUTANI
  • Publication number: 20180304662
    Abstract: An image erasing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a sheet supply portion that supplies a sheet and an ejector. A first conveying path conveys the sheet from the sheet supply portion toward the ejector. A reader arranged on the first conveying path reads an image on the sheet. A second conveying path branches from the first conveying path at a downstream of the reader on the first conveying path and merges with the first conveying path at an upstream of the reader on the first conveying path. An erasing unit is arranged on the second conveying path. A conveying path changing portion is arranged at a branching portion. An operating portion receives a setup of the processing to the sheet. A controller changes a conveying path of the sheet in accordance with the setup received by the operating portion before the sheet is supplied from the sheet supply portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Ken IGUCHI, Hidetoshi YOKOCHI, Isao YAHATA, Takahiro KAWAGUCHI, Yoshiaki SUGIZAKI, Kikuo MIZUTANI, Hiroyuki TAKI, Hiroyuki TSUCHIHASHI, Chiaki IIZUKA
  • Patent number: 10093508
    Abstract: A card separation apparatus includes a movable tray having a surface onto which a sheet is conveyed after a card has been separated from the sheet, and a card separation unit mounted on the surface for movement with the movable tray, the card separation unit having an opening through which the sheet is conveyed, and a controller configured to send an instruction to the movable tray to be moved at a predetermined timing after a leading edge of the sheet to which the card is attached enters the opening, so as to cause the sheet to be initially separated from the card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kikuo Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20180224801
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a container which is constituted by a bottom connected with a side wall of the image processing apparatus and extending upwards in the vertical direction at a predetermined angle from the side wall and a side wall section vertically arranged on the bottom, and houses a sheet to be processed in a space formed by the side wall of the image processing apparatus and the side wall section; and a pickup section configured to make a roller enter to the inside of the container when the pickup section executes a pickup operation for conveying the sheet to be processed to a main body section of the image processing apparatus and make the roller located inside the image processing apparatus when the pickup section does not execute the pickup operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Ken Iguchi, Kikuo Mizutani, Yuichi Saito, Yoici Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10035369
    Abstract: An image erasing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a sheet supply portion that supplies a sheet and an ejector. A first conveying path conveys the sheet from the sheet supply portion toward the ejector. A reader arranged on the first conveying path reads an image on the sheet. A second conveying path branches from the first conveying path at a downstream of the reader on the first conveying path and merges with the first conveying path at an upstream of the reader on the first conveying path. An erasing unit is arranged on the second conveying path. A conveying path changing portion is arranged at a branching portion. An operating portion receives a setup of the processing to the sheet. A controller changes a conveying path of the sheet in accordance with the setup received by the operating portion before the sheet is supplied from the sheet supply portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ken Iguchi, Hidetoshi Yokochi, Isao Yahata, Takahiro Kawaguchi, Yoshiaki Sugizaki, Kikuo Mizutani, Hiroyuki Taki, Hiroyuki Tsuchihashi, Chiaki Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20180208347
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a label peeling device includes a tray, a pressing unit, and a control unit. The tray is configured to support a label sheet thereon. The pressing unit is configured to be driven in a direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the label sheet. The control unit is configured to drive the pressing unit toward a central portion of the label sheet supported on the tray. The control unit performs peeling control to peel a liner sheet and a label body of the label sheet from each other by pressing an edge of the label sheet and thereby curving the label sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventor: Kikuo MIZUTANI
  • Patent number: 10031465
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sheet binding device includes a tape support base, a slide base, a tape holder, a first displacement mechanism, and a second displacement mechanism. The tape support base supports a tape. The slide base is movable in a first direction. The tape holder is supported on the slide base and is movable in a second direction crossing the first direction. The first displacement mechanism displaces the tape holder in a second direction from a first position that is a position away from the tape to a second position at which the tape holder is capable of coming into contact with the tape. The second displacement mechanism displaces the tape holder in the second direction from the second position to the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takamitsu Sunaoshi, Misato Ishikawa, Takahiro Kokubo, Shunsuke Hattori, Kikuo Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20180178572
    Abstract: An erasing apparatus of embodiments has a color erasing device, the color erasing device has: a first heating member; a second heating member provided at a position facing the first heating member so as to form a nip portion therebetween through which the sheet is passed; a halogen lamp configured to heat the second heating member from outside thereof; and a reflector provided at a position opposite to the second heating member with the halogen lamp interposed therebetween and having a reflective surface configured to reflect heat received from the halogen lamp toward the second heating member, the reflector forming a guiding section configured to be in sliding contact with the sheet being conveyed so as to guide the sheet to the nip portion, the guiding section being heated by the halogen lamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroyuki TSUCHIHASHI, Kikuo MIZUTANI, Hidetoshi YOKOCHI, Isao YAHATA, Takahiro KAWAGUCHI, Yoshiaki SUGIZAKI, Hiroyuki TAKI, Ken IGUCHI, Chiaki IIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20180148294
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sheet separator has a first driving roller and a pressing body. The first driving roller rotates about a first rotation shaft. The first driving roller conveys a sheet bundle including a plurality of sheets. The pressing body is capable of approaching the first driving roller. The first driving roller is rotatable in a first direction with the sheet bundle sandwiched between the first driving roller and the pressing body. The pressing body pivots in the first direction about the first rotation shaft with the sheet bundle sandwiched between the first driving roller and the pressing body to cause the plurality of sheets to deviate from one another at edges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Takamitsu SUNAOSHI, Misato ISHIKAWA, Takahiro KOKUBO, Shunsuke HATTORI, Kikuo MIZUTANI
  • Publication number: 20180150016
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sheet binding device includes a tape support base, a slide base, a tape holder, a first displacement mechanism, and a second displacement mechanism. The tape support base supports a tape. The slide base is movable in a first direction. The tape holder is supported on the slide base and is movable in a second direction crossing the first direction. The first displacement mechanism displaces the tape holder in a second direction from a first position that is a position away from the tape to a second position at which the tape holder is capable of coming into contact with the tape. The second displacement mechanism displaces the tape holder in the second direction from the second position to the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Takamitsu SUNAOSHI, Misato ISHIKAWA, Takahiro KOKUBO, Shunsuke HATTORI, Kikuo MIZUTANI