Patents by Inventor Kohei Hashimoto

Kohei Hashimoto 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).

  • Publication number: 20240388015
    Abstract: A protector includes: a protector main body that includes a first arrangement portion and a second arrangement portion; a first cover that covers the first arrangement portion; and a second cover that covers the second arrangement portion. A first electric wire is arranged in the first arrangement portion. A connection portion between the first and second terminals is arranged in the second arrangement portion. The second cover is formed separately from the protector main body and the first cover. The first cover includes a first locking portion. The second cover includes a second locking portion that lockingly engages with the first locking portion. Furthermore, the second cover is configured to be capable of rotating about a contact portion between the first locking portion and the second locking portion as an axis of rotation from an open position to a closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventor: Kohei HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240317158
    Abstract: A grommet device (13) according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a bracket (20) that is to be attached to a vehicle body panel (10) and has a plurality of through holes (22) extending in a first direction (X) that intersects a virtual plane (P); a plurality of tubular grommets (30) that are respectively passed through the plurality of through holes (22); and a sealing member (40) that surrounds the plurality of grommets (30) and protrudes from the bracket (20) in the first direction (X) that intersects the virtual plane (P). The plurality of grommets (30) are detachably attached without a gap with respect to each of the through holes (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventor: Kohei HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11796928
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive support and a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive support. A top surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member includes fluorine-containing resin particles, a fluorine-containing dispersant, and two or more charge transporting materials. When the charge transporting materials are listed in order of decreasing HOMO energy levels, a difference in HOMO energy level between each adjacent two of the charge The ratio A of the amount of each of the charge transporting materials to the total amount of the charge transporting materials satisfies the condition 1 below, [(100/N)?(100/N×0.3)]?A?[(100/N)+(100/N×0.3)]??Condition 1 where N represents the number of types of the charge transporting materials included in the top surface layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kenta Shingu, Yoshiteru Yamada, Akihiro Kawasaki, Keisuke Kusano, Kohei Hashimoto, Yuto Okazaki, Takeshi Iwanaga, Wataru Yamada, Hirohito Yoneyama
  • Publication number: 20230297301
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to: receive reception information from a user and authentication information including a validity period which is determined on a per user basis and throughout which a transmission destination apparatus transmitting the reception information is available; store the reception information on the memory; and delete the reception information from the memory when the validity period expires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Tatsuo MISHIMA, Kohei HASHIMOTO, Tomohiro MASUBUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230297304
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a processor configured to: obtain print information including a setting of a predetermined specific page and predetermined verification information, the predetermined specific page being indicated by print data which is to be subjected to printing processing; convert the print data into image data in a printable format for each output page; embed the predetermined verification information into the image data of an output page including the predetermined specific page; request a user to provide the verification information so as to obtain the verification information when printing the output page with the embedded verification information; and execute printing processing if the embedded verification information and the obtained verification information match each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kohei HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230288847
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, and a lamination type photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate and including a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer in this order, in which the charge transport layer contains at least one resin selected from a polyester resin or a polycarbonate resin, and in a case where a Martens hardness and an indentation hardness, which are acquired by an indentation test performed on the charge transport layer to a depth of 0.5 ?m, are respectively defined as HM (N/mm2) and nIT (N/mm2), Relational Equation (0) is satisfied, an elastic deformation modulus is 45% or greater and 70% or less, and a tensile elastic modulus of the charge transport layer is 2,300 MPa or greater and 5,000 MPa or less, nIT=a×HM?b(a=2±0.2,b=100±20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hiroko Kobayashi, Tomoya Sasaki, Kohei Hashimoto, Ryosuke Fujii, Yuto Okazaki, Kosuke Narita
  • Publication number: 20230288824
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, and a lamination type photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate and including a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer, in which the charge transport layer contains a polyester resin having a structure represented by Formula (1) at a terminal and a charge transport material, and in a case where a weight-average molecular weight Mw of the polyester resin is defined as A (×10,000), a value of a ratio M1/M2 of a mass M1 of the charge transport material to a mass M2 of an entire charge transport layer is defined as Cs, and an average thickness of the charge transport layer is defined as Ds (?m), expressions of 7?A?40, 0.28?Cs?0.55, 27?Ds?50, and 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuto OKAZAKI, Tomoya SASAKI, Ryosuke FUJII, Kohei HASHIMOTO, Hiroko KOBAYASHI, Kosuke NARITA
  • Patent number: 11757208
    Abstract: A wiring harness is provided with a first wire member including a first terminal and a first wire and a protector for accommodating the first wire member. The protector includes a protector body, a bolt and a restricting portion. The protector body has a bottom wall extending in a length direction, two side walls projecting from both side edges of the bottom wall and facing each other, and an opening formed by the two side walls and facing the bottom wall. The bolt projects from the protector body and is inserted into a through hole of the terminal. The restricting portion covers only a part of the first wire member closer to a side opposite to a tip side of the first terminal than the through hole in the length direction, and restricts a movement of the first wire member in a projecting direction of the bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Kohei Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20230280668
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, an undercoat layer disposed on the conductive substrate, and a lamination type photosensitive layer disposed on the undercoat layer and including a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer, in which the charge transport layer contains a charge transport material and a polyester resin, and in a case where an average thickness of the charge transport layer is defined as As (?m) and an average thickness of the undercoat layer is defined as Bs (?m), expressions 27?As?50, 10?Bs?40, and 0.70?As/Bs?4.80 are satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Tomoya SASAKI, Kohei Hashimoto, Ryosuke Fujii, Hiroko Kobayashi, Yuto Okazaki, Kosuke Narita
  • Publication number: 20230266683
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, and a lamination type photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate and including a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer, in which the charge transport layer contains a charge transport material, at least one of a polyester resin that has a constitutional unit having an aromatic ring or a polycarbonate resin that has a constitutional unit having an aromatic ring, and a compound (1) represented by Formula (1) and having a melting point of 40° C. or higher, in Formula (1), Ar represents an aromatic ring that may have a substituent, L represents a single bond, an oxygen atom, or a sulfur atom, R represents an alkyl group having 1 or more and 10 or less carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6 or more and 20 or less carbon atoms, or an aralkyl group having 7 or more and 20 or less carbon atoms, and n represents an integer of 1 or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Fujii, Tomoya Sasaki, Hiroko Kobayashi, Kohei Hashimoto, Yuto OKazaki, Kosuke Narita
  • Publication number: 20230266684
    Abstract: An image forming unit includes a photoreceptor and a charging member that comes into contact with a surface of the photoreceptor and charges the photoreceptor, in which the photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, and a lamination type photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate and including a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer, the charge transport layer contains at least one of a polyester resin that has a constitutional unit having an aromatic ring or a polycarbonate resin that has a constitutional unit having an aromatic ring, the charging member includes a support member and an elastic layer disposed on the support member, and the elastic layer has a storage elastic modulus G? of 5.0 MPa or less at a frequency of 100 Hz in dynamic viscoelasticity measurement under a temperature condition of 24° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kosuke NARITA, Tomoya Sasaki, Ryosuke Fujii, Kohei Hashimoto, Hiroko Kobayashi, Yuto Okazaki
  • Publication number: 20230198235
    Abstract: A protector includes a shell portion that is formed from a resin and covers an outer side of an electric wire and a protection portion that dampens an impact applied from outside the protector. The protection portion is formed from a resin and formed integrally with the shell portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Kohei HASHIMOTO, Hiroshi INOUE, Takao SUGA, Takahiro ITO, Hayate TAKAHASHI, Makoto TAKAHASHI, Kengo SATOH, Takuma SHIMAMURA, Yusuke UCHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20230195003
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, and a lamination type photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate and including a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer, in which the charge transport layer contains a charge transport material and a polyester resin, and a mass proportion of a chemical substance (AA) represented by Formula (AA) in a total mass of the charge transport layer is 2,000 ppm or less. In Formula (AA), X represents an organic group, and mAA represents an integer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Tomoya SASAKI, Ryosuke FUJII, Kohei HASHIMOTO, Hiroko KOBAYASHI, Yuto OKAZAKI, Kosuke NARITA
  • Publication number: 20230107087
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, and a lamination type photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate and including a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer, in which the charge transport layer contains a polyester resin (1) having a dicarboxylic acid unit (A) represented by Formula (A) and a diol unit (B) represented by Formula (B), and a charge transport material, and in a case where a weight-average molecular weight Mw of the polyester resin (1) contained in the charge transport layer is defined as A (10,000), a value of a ratio M1/M2 of a mass M1 of the charge transport material contained in the charge transport layer to a mass M2 of the charge transport layer is defined as Cs, and an average thickness of the charge transport layer is defined as Ds (?m), expressions of 5?A?40, 0.28?Cs?0.55, 27?Ds?50, and 2.5?(A×Ds)/(Cs×100)?70.0 are satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Tomoya SASAKI, Ryosuke FUJII, Kohei HASHIMOTO, Hiroko KOBAYASHI, Yuto OKAZAKI, Kosuke NARITA
  • Publication number: 20230068257
    Abstract: A wiring harness is provided with a first wire member including a first terminal and a first wire and a protector for accommodating the first wire member. The protector includes a protector body, a bolt and a restricting portion. The protector body has a bottom wall extending in a length direction, two side walls projecting from both side edges of the bottom wall and facing each other, and an opening formed by the two side walls and facing the bottom wall. The bolt projects from the protector body and is inserted into a through hole of the terminal. The restricting portion covers only a part of the first wire member closer to a side opposite to a tip side of the first terminal than the through hole in the length direction, and restricts a movement of the first wire member in a projecting direction of the bolt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventor: Kohei HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220308473
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive support and a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive support. A top surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member includes fluorine-containing resin particles, a fluorine-containing dispersant, and two or more charge transporting materials. When the charge transporting materials are listed in order of decreasing HOMO energy levels, a difference in HOMO energy level between each adjacent two of the charge The ratio A of the amount of each of the charge transporting materials to the total amount of the charge transporting materials satisfies the condition 1 below, [(100/N)?(100/N×0.3)]?A?[(100/N)+(100/N×0.3)]??Condition 1 where N represents the number of types of the charge transporting materials included in the top surface layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kenta SHINGU, Yoshiteru Yamada, Akihiro Kawasaki, Keisuke Kusano, Kohei Hashimoto, Yuto Okazaki, Takeshi Iwanaga, Wataru Yamada, Hirohito Yoneyama
  • Patent number: 10186969
    Abstract: There is to provide a semiconductor device capable of activating a circuit quickly, operating with a lower power consumption in a steady state, and coping with the dispersion of the elements. The semiconductor device includes an amplifier coupled to a power voltage, to output a voltage based on a reference voltage and a voltage of a negative feedback node, to an output node; and a voltage divider coupled to the output node, to output the divided voltage to the negative feedback node. The voltage divider includes first and second voltage dividing paths with different resistance, a first switching circuit coupled to the first and the second voltage dividing paths, in a dividing ratio adjustable way, and a second switching circuit for controlling the first and the second voltage dividing paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Kohei Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10095134
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor which includes an electroconductive substrate, an undercoat layer which is provided on the electroconductive substrate, contains a binder resin and a metal oxide particle, and has an electrostatic capacitance per unit area of from 10 pF/cm2 to 100 pF/cm2, and a photosensitive layer provided on the undercoat layer; an electrostatic latent image forming unit that forms an electrostatic latent image on a charged surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor; and a developing unit that stores a developer containing a toner which contains toner particles of which a volume average particle diameter is from 3.0 ?m to 5.5 ?m, and develops the electrostatic latent image formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor by using the developer, so as to form a toner image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Hashimoto, Hirofumi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9983144
    Abstract: Provided are a plasma light source capable of solving a problem occurring when an arc discharge lamp is used and an inspection apparatus capable of providing uniform and high-brightness plasma light. The plasma light source includes a pulse laser generator configured to generate a pulse laser beam, a continuous wave (CW) laser generator configured to generate an infrared ray (IR) CW laser beam, a first dichroic mirror configured to transmit or reflect the pulse laser beam and reflect or transmit the IR CW laser beam, a chamber configured to receive the pulse laser beam to ignite plasma and the IR CW laser beam to maintain the plasma in an ignited state, and discharge plasma light generated by the plasma, and a second dichroic mirror configured to transmit the pulse laser beam and the IR CW laser beam and reflect the plasma light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohei Hashimoto, Nobuyuki Kimura, Wook-rae Kim, Byeong-hwan Jeon
  • Patent number: 9965917
    Abstract: A slot machine displays on a display a unit game in which arranged symbols are rearranged. When a predetermined condition is satisfied, the slot machine displays on the display a free game that is a special game. The slot machine also changes a game sound that has been emitted into a different game sound when a predetermined condition is satisfied in the free game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Naoki Tsuchiya, Kohei Hashimoto, Hiroki Abe, Takanori Sakata