Patents by Inventor Koichi Noda

Koichi Noda 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: 20240094671
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device to heat a recording material at a use position, an opening and closing member, and a drawer unit. In a state where the fixing device is at the use position, part of the fixing device is located in a space for the drawer unit to pass through when moved from a first inner position to a first outer position so that movement of the drawer unit from the first inner to the first outer position is restricted. The fixing device is retracted from the use position to a retracted position so that the movement of the drawer unit from the first inner to the first outer position is allowed. Part of the fixing device at the retracted position is at a position higher than a position of an upper cover portion of the opening and closing member at a closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: CHIKARA IMAIZUMI, SATOSHI MURASAKI, KIYOSHI FURUTA, SHINYA NODA, KUNIHIRO NIWA, YOJI MISAO, TOMOOKU KOYAMA, TOMOKI KATAFUCHI, TOMONARI INOUE, KOICHI SEKIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20240085824
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a drawer unit, and a transfer device a including a belt. When image formation on a recording material is performed, the drawer unit is at a first apparatus main body inner position and the transfer device is at a second apparatus main body inner position. In this drawer unit state, (a) a part of the transfer device is disposed downstream of the drawer unit in a moving direction in which the drawer unit moves from the first inner position to a first apparatus main body outer position, and (b) in a vertical direction, an area where the part of the transfer device is positioned overlaps, at least in part, with an area where the drawer unit is positioned. The transfer device includes a cleaning member to clean the belt and is accommodated in the part of the transfer device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: CHIKARA IMAIZUMI, SATOSHI MURASAKI, KIYOSHI FURUTA, SHINYA NODA, KUNIHIRO NIWA, YOJI MISAO, TOMOOKU KOYAMA, TOMOKI KATAFUCHI, TOMONARI INOUE, KOICHI SEKIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20240085825
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus to form an image on a recording material includes an apparatus main body having a first end provided with an opening and having a second end, a fixing device to heat the recording material, an opening and closing member, a drawer unit having a first photosensitive drum, and a transfer device. When being moved from a first inner position inside the apparatus main body to a first outer position outside the apparatus main body through the main body opening, the drawer unit is to be moved in a moving direction intersecting with a rotation axis of the first photosensitive drum, and is to be moved away from the second end. When being moved from a second inner position inside the apparatus main body to a second outer position outside the apparatus main body, the transfer device is moved away from the second end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: CHIKARA IMAIZUMI, SATOSHI MURASAKI, KIYOSHI FURUTA, SHINYA NODA, KUNIHIRO NIWA, YOJI MISAO, TOMOOKU KOYAMA, TOMOKI KATAFUCHI, TOMONARI INOUE, KOICHI SEKIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20240085849
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a drawer unit, and a transfer device including a belt. The drawer unit includes a first cartridge, a support member to which the first cartridge is detachably attached, and a first photosensitive drum disposed on the support member or the first cartridge. The drawer unit is moved to a first inner position inside the apparatus main body and to a first outer position outside the apparatus main body. The transfer device is moved to a second inner position inside the apparatus main body and to a second outer position outside the apparatus main body. The belt contacts the first photosensitive drum with the transfer device at the second inner position. The transfer device is moved from the second inner to the second outer position when the drawer unit is moved from the first inner to the first outer position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: CHIKARA IMAIZUMI, SATOSHI MURASAKI, KIYOSHI FURUTA, SHINYA NODA, KUNIHIRO NIWA, YOJI MISAO, TOMOOKU KOYAMA, TOMOKI KATAFUCHI, TOMONARI INOUE, KOICHI SEKIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20240069791
    Abstract: A computer of a data processing device comprising: a common digital twin in which first processed data obtained by processing received source data is stored; a specific digital twin in which second processed data obtained by processing the source data is stored; and a service processor for each of a plurality of services that requests access to the common digital twin or the specific digital twin to perform data processing. Each of a plurality of the service processors is configured to: read the second processed data from the specific digital twin for each of the plurality of services; and when no data to be read is determined to exist, read the first processed data from the common digital twin, in accordance with a predetermined data distribution rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Masahide Noda, Koichi Yokota
  • Patent number: 9889538
    Abstract: To control cutting process with cutting quality to obtain product without any uncut portion on a corner portion, and to respond to a change in cutting speed. Water jet cutting performed by: inputting a cutting program, set cutting speed, cutting parameters; calculating cutting speed matching the cutting quality; calculating cutting shape from the cutting program and dividing the cutting shape into a linear portion and a corner portion; calculating a corner cutting speed for the corner portion on the basis of a shape of the corner portion within range from the calculation cutting speed to the set cutting speed, set cutting speed equal to or higher than the calculation cutting speed; set cutting speed and the corner cutting speed to the linear portion and the corner portion, respectively, in the cutting program; moving the nozzle relative to the workpiece on the basis of the cutting program assigned with cutting speeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventors: Koichi Noda, Takuya Aoki, Naotsugu Terasaki
  • Publication number: 20150266161
    Abstract: To control cutting process with cutting quality to obtain product without any uncut portion on a corner portion, and to respond to a change in cutting speed. Water jet cutting performed by: inputting a cutting program, set cutting speed, cutting parameters; calculating cutting speed matching the cutting quality; calculating cutting shape from the cutting program and dividing the cutting shape into a linear portion and a corner portion; calculating a corner cutting speed for the corner portion on the basis of a shape of the corner portion within range from the calculation cutting speed to the set cutting speed, set cutting speed equal to or higher than the calculation cutting speed; set cutting speed and the corner cutting speed to the linear portion and the corner portion, respectively, in the cutting program; moving the nozzle relative to the workpiece on the basis of the cutting program assigned with cutting speeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Koichi NODA, Takuya AOKI, Naotsugu TERASAKI
  • Patent number: 5457369
    Abstract: A numerical control system for readily finding machining programs containing desired machining steps and displaying the programs at a display device. A storage device stores machining programs and an internal table. A setting/registering unit creates the machining programs interactively in accordance with commands entered by an operator through an input device such as a keyboard, and registers the machining programs in the storage device with internal codes corresponding to the machining steps affixed thereto. When a command to perform a search for a specific machining step is entered by the operator, a command input unit requests the operator to enter a search start program number, a search end program number, etc., through the input device. On receiving the entered start program number, etc., a searching unit searches the machining programs, stored in the storage device, for the specific machining step, and outputs search data, whereupon a display control unit displays the search data at the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1995
    Assignee: Fanuc Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruyuki Matsumura, Yuji Deguchi, Koichi Noda
  • Patent number: D972592
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SEKISUI HOUSE, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kusaba, Hiroaki Yoshida, Noriyuki Ono, Ichiro Fujioka, Koichi Noda, Junko Saitoh, Masaru Hamazaki, Buntoku Mori, Aya Nakano, Emi Fujii, Shima Kanno
  • Patent number: D983061
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: SEKISUI HOUSE, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kusaba, Masaru Hamazaki, Koichi Noda