Patents by Inventor Koichi Nakata

Koichi Nakata 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: 20180329317
    Abstract: A coating film of a coating liquid for a surface layer, the coating liquid containing a hole transporting compound having a chain-polymerizable functional group and a compound having a specified structure, is cured to thereby form a surface layer of an electrophotographic photosensitive member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Haruki Mori, Masaki Nonaka, Shinji Takagi, Koichi Nakata
  • Patent number: 10120331
    Abstract: The present invention provides a satisfactory electrophotographic photosensitive member which satisfies wear resistance and electrical properties and further, with which image defects do not occur, a process for producing an electrophotographic photosensitive member, and an electrophotographic apparatus and a process cartridge each including the electrophotographic photosensitive member. The electrophotographic photosensitive member the surface layer of which contains a copolymer of a polymerizable functional group-containing charge transporting substance and a particular polymerizable compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Nakata, Shinji Takagi, Masaki Nonaka, Haruki Mori
  • Publication number: 20180284629
    Abstract: Provided are an electrophotographic photosensitive member capable of satisfying abrasion resistance and electrical properties and suppressing image deletion, and an electrophotographic apparatus and a process cartridge having the electrophotographic photosensitive member. A surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a polymer of a hole transport material having a polymerizable functional group, wherein the hole transport material has a specific structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Koichi Nakata, Haruki Mori, Shinji Takagi, Masaki Nonaka, Ryoichi Tokimitsu
  • Patent number: 10067431
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member, in which occurrences of image defects are suppressed, and a method for manufacturing the electrophotographic photosensitive member are provided. In addition, a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus, which include the electrophotographic photosensitive member, are provided. The surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a cured material, and the cured material is a copolymer of a hole transport compound having a chain-polymerizable functional group and a vinyl ester compound containing a long-chain alkyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Takagi, Masaki Nonaka, Haruki Mori, Ryoichi Tokimitsu, Koichi Nakata
  • Patent number: 10042272
    Abstract: To provide an electrophotographic photosensitive member being excellent in abrasion resistance and having good electrical characteristics. The surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a copolymerized product of a hole transporting compound having a specified structure and a compound having a specified structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Haruki Mori, Shinji Takagi, Masaki Nonaka, Koichi Nakata
  • Patent number: 9946175
    Abstract: To provide an electrophotographic photosensitive member which satisfies abrasion resistance and electrical properties and which is difficult to cause image deletion. A surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member of this invention contains a polymerized product of a hole transporting compound having a polymerizable functional group, in which the hole transporting compound is at least one compound selected from the group consisting of: a compound consisting of one or more carbon atoms, one or more hydrogen atoms, and one or more halogen atoms; and a compound consisting of one or more carbon atoms, one or more hydrogen atoms, one or more oxygen atoms, and one or more halogen atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Nakata, Shinji Takagi, Yuzo Tokunaga, Masaki Nonaka, Ryoichi Tokimitsu
  • Publication number: 20180059566
    Abstract: Provided is a UV-curable liquid developer remaining in an apparatus hardly cures with visible light even when the apparatus is opened for the purpose of, for example, its maintenance, and the UV-curable liquid developer shows sufficient fixability by irradiation of the UV light. The UV-curable liquid developer includes: toner particles; a polymerization initiator; a sensitizer; and a polymerizable monomer, in which the sensitizer contains a compound represented by X—Y, where X represents a triphenylenyl group or the like and Y represents a triphenylenyl group or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tanabe, Junji Ito, Yasuhiro Aichi, Jun Shirakawa, Koichi Nakata
  • Publication number: 20170364025
    Abstract: The present invention provides a satisfactory electrophotographic photosensitive member which satisfies wear resistance and electrical properties and further, with which image defects do not occur, a process for producing an electrophotographic photosensitive member, and an electrophotographic apparatus and a process cartridge each including the electrophotographic photosensitive member. The electrophotographic photosensitive member the surface layer of which contains a copolymer of a polymerizable functional group-containing charge transporting substance and a particular polymerizable compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Koichi Nakata, Shinji Takagi, Masaki Nonaka, Haruki Mori
  • Patent number: 9829810
    Abstract: In an electrophotographic photosensitive member including a support and a photosensitive layer formed on the support, a surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a cured product obtained by copolymerizing at least one compound (i) selected from the group consisting of a triphenylamine compound having a hydroxymethyl group and a benzidine compound having a hydroxymethyl group, and at least one compound (ii) selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by the following formula (1), a compound represented by the following formula (2), a compound represented by the following formula (3), and a compound represented by the following formula (4):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Nonaka, Ryoichi Tokimitsu, Shinji Takagi, Koichi Nakata, Haruki Mori
  • Publication number: 20170315458
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member, in which occurrences of image defects are suppressed, and a method for manufacturing the electrophotographic photosensitive member are provided. In addition, a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus, which include the electrophotographic photosensitive member, are provided. The surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a cured material, and the cured material is a copolymer of a hole transport compound having a chain-polymerizable functional group and a vinyl ester compound containing a long-chain alkyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Shinji Takagi, Masaki Nonaka, Haruki Mori, Ryoichi Tokimitsu, Koichi Nakata
  • Publication number: 20170299971
    Abstract: To provide an electrophotographic photosensitive member being excellent in abrasion resistance and having good electrical characteristics. The surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a copolymerized product of a hole transporting compound having a specified structure and a compound having a specified structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Haruki Mori, Shinji Takagi, Masaki Nonaka, Koichi Nakata
  • Patent number: 9762806
    Abstract: In an imaging apparatus that includes a lens unit and a body unit, when a diaphragm value of a variable diaphragm is changed, the lens unit calculates an announcement value indicating the diaphragm value when a prescribed time period has passed since a detection time of a current diaphragm value of the variable diaphragm, and transmits the announcement value to the body unit, and the body unit controls exposure of an image sensor on the basis of the announcement value obtained from the lens unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Koichi Nakata
  • Patent number: 9740117
    Abstract: Provided are an electrophotographic photosensitive member which satisfies wear resistance and electrical characteristics, and in which image deletion is satisfactorily suppressed, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus each including the electrophotographic photosensitive member. The electrophotographic photosensitive member comprises a surface layer which includes a polymerized product of a hole transporting substance having a reactive functional group, in which a structure other than the reactive functional group of the hole transporting substance is one of: a structure consisting of a carbon atom and a hydrogen atom; and a structure consisting of a carbon atom, a hydrogen atom and an oxygen atom, and the structure other than the reactive functional group of the hole transporting substance comprises a specific conjugate structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuo Kosaka, Koichi Nakata, Shinji Takagi
  • Publication number: 20170131646
    Abstract: In an electrophotographic photosensitive member including a support and a photosensitive layer formed on the support, a surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a cured product obtained by copolymerizing at least one compound (i) selected from the group consisting of a triphenylamine compound having a hydroxymethyl group and a benzidine compound having a hydroxymethyl group, and at least one compound (ii) selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by the following formula (1), a compound represented by the following formula (2), a compound represented by the following formula (3), and a compound represented by the following formula (4):
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Masaki Nonaka, Ryoichi Tokimitsu, Shinji Takagi, Koichi Nakata, Haruki Mori
  • Publication number: 20170108789
    Abstract: To provide an electrophotographic photosensitive member which satisfies abrasion resistance and electrical properties and which is difficult to cause image deletion. A surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member of this invention contains a polymerized product of a hole transporting compound having a polymerizable functional group, in which the hole transporting compound is at least one compound selected from the group consisting of: a compound consisting of one or more carbon atoms, one or more hydrogen atoms, and one or more halogen atoms; and a compound consisting of one or more carbon atoms, one or more hydrogen atoms, one or more oxygen atoms, and one or more halogen atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Koichi Nakata, Shinji Takagi, Yuzo Tokunaga, Masaki Nonaka, Ryoichi Tokimitsu
  • Patent number: 9594318
    Abstract: Provided is an electrophotographic photosensitive member, including: a support; and a photosensitive layer formed on the support, in which a surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a polymerized product of a compound represented by the following structural formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Nakata, Shinji Takagi, Masaki Nonaka, Ryoichi Tokimitsu, Haruki Mori
  • Patent number: 9544483
    Abstract: In a camera system, a lens CPU controls the operation of an interchangeable lens at a control instruction from a camera body. In the camera body, a subject formed on an imaging element by using the interchangeable lens is photographed at a specified frame rate and image data is generated. A camera body communication circuit transmits a timing signal in accordance with the frame rate to the lens CPU through a main body CPU. The main body CPU acquires lens characteristic data stored in non-volatile memory by a communication with the lens CPU, determines the transmission period of the timing signal according to the acquired lens characteristic data, and controls the camera body communication circuit on the basis of the determined transmission period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Nakata, Kazuhiro Kumazawa
  • Publication number: 20160366324
    Abstract: In an imaging apparatus that includes a lens unit and a body unit, when a diaphragm value of a variable diaphragm is changed, the lens unit calculates an announcement value indicating the diaphragm value when a prescribed time period has passed since a detection time of a current diaphragm value of the variable diaphragm, and transmits the announcement value to the body unit, and the body unit controls exposure of an image sensor on the basis of the announcement value obtained from the lens unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventor: Koichi NAKATA
  • Patent number: 9477164
    Abstract: A surface layer of an electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a cured product of a composition containing a hole transporting substance having an acryloyloxy group and/or a methacryloyloxy group and a siloxane-modified acrylic compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Takagi, Koichi Nakata
  • Patent number: 9438806
    Abstract: A digital camera includes: a display section displaying a photographing image obtained by photographing a subject; a signal processing and control section reading out information related to the subject and information related to surroundings of the subject from a database on the basis of position information and compass direction information about the digital camera; and a display control section selecting the information related to the subject according to the lens condition and performing control so as to display the selected information on the display section by superimposing the selected information on the photographing image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Nonaka, Manabu Ichikawa, Koichi Nakata