Patents by Inventor Koji Murata

Koji Murata 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: 20180231693
    Abstract: The present invention provides a gas barrier laminated film including: a first barrier film having a first substrate, a first inorganic thin film layer, and a first gas barrier covering layer; and a second barrier film having a second substrate, a second inorganic thin film layer, and a second gas barrier covering layer; wherein the first barrier film and the second barrier film are laminated through an adhesive layer so that the first gas barrier covering layer and the second gas barrier covering layer are opposite to each other; the distance between the first inorganic thin film layer and the second inorganic thin film layer is about 1.0 ?m or more; and the refractive index difference between the first gas barrier covering layer and the adhesive layer, and the refractive index difference between the second gas barrier covering layer and the adhesive layer are both about 0.05 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji MURATA, Ryo SHODA
  • Publication number: 20180173156
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a toner replenishing portion, a waste toner collecting portion, and a toner container. The toner container is attachable to the toner replenishing portion and the waste toner collecting portion. The toner container includes a first lever switchable between first and second positions, and a second lever switchable between third and fourth positions. The toner replenishing portion includes a first actuating portion configured to, while the toner container is being attached to the toner replenishing portion, prohibit an attachment of the toner container, and a second actuating portion configured to switch the second lever to the fourth position. The waste toner collecting portion includes a third actuating portion configured to, while the toner container is being attached to the waste toner collecting portion, prohibit an attachment of the toner container, and a fourth actuating portion configured to switch the first lever to the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Koji Murata
  • Patent number: 10001724
    Abstract: A toner case includes a case main body, a transmission member, and a cover. The case main body contains a toner and rotates around a rotation axis line. The transmission member is attached to an outer circumferential face of the case main body and configured to transmit rotation driving force to the case main body. The cover is configured to cover an opening part arranged at the case main body. The case main body includes a rotation restricting part and a movement restricting part. The rotation restricting part is configured to restrict a rotation of the transmission member with respect to the case main body. The movement restricting part is configured to restrict a movement in a direction of the rotation axis line of the transmission member with respect to the case main body. The transmission member is positioned between the cover and the movement restricting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Koji Murata
  • Patent number: 9964893
    Abstract: A toner case includes a case main body, a cover, and an agitating member. The case main body is configured to contain a toner and to rotate. The cover is configured to cover an opening part arranged at the case main body and to maintain a rotation stop state when the case main body rotates, the cover having a communication space which communicates with an inside space of the case main body via the opening part. The agitating member is configured to rotate integrally with the case main body and to agitate the toner in the communication space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Koji Murata
  • Patent number: 9946194
    Abstract: A toner case includes a case main body, a cover, and a seal member. The case main body is configured to contain a toner and to rotate. The cover is configured to cover an opening part arranged at the case main body and to maintain a rotation stop state when the case main body rotates. The seal member is interposed between the case main body and the cover and configured to maintain a rotation stop state when the case main body rotates. At least a part of the seal member is composed of an elastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Koji Murata
  • Patent number: 9939772
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a toner container, a container attachment portion, and a control portion. The toner container has a coupling portion. The container attachment portion includes a coupled portion that includes a first key member. A second key member of the coupling portion is formed at position where it does not interfere with the first key member in attachment state. The second key member is made of insulator. The coupled portion includes a contact terminal in which a contact is opened by the second key member and becomes OFF state when the toner container is inserted to attachment position, and the contact is closed and becomes ON state when the toner container is removed from the attachment position. The control portion detects the toner container attached to the container attachment portion when the contact of the contact terminal changes from the ON state to the OFF state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Koji Murata
  • Publication number: 20180031237
    Abstract: Formed in a wall part of a dome part of an annular combustor encircling an axis of a gas turbine engine are multiple fuel supply holes spaced at predetermined intervals in circumferential direction around the axis and many cooling holes extending through the wall part in direction inclined to a normal thereof. When two adjacent fuel supply holes are defined as first and second fuel supply holes, a virtual boundary line contacting an outer semi-circular portion, far from the axis, of the first fuel supply hole and an inner semi-circular portion, close to the axis, of the second fuel supply hole is set. The first cooling holes in region radially outward, relative to the axis, of the line are inclined toward the second fuel supply hole, and the second cooling holes in region radially inward, relative to the axis, of the line are inclined toward the first fuel supply hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Yasuharu Kamoi, Koji Murata
  • Publication number: 20180024277
    Abstract: A quantum dot protective film for sealing a phosphor, including: a protective layer having foreign matter, the maximum size of which is 100 to 500 ?m; and a coating layer formed on one surface of the protective layer, wherein the abundance ratio of the foreign matter with the maximum size of 100 to 500 ?m is 0.01 to 5.0 particles/m2 in the protective layer, and the haze value is 20% or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Murata, Kenji Matsumasa, Kengo Okamura, Satoshi Iwata, Masato Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 9857728
    Abstract: A toner container is attachable to and detachable from a toner supply portion of an image forming apparatus. The toner container includes an attaching portion configured to be engaged with an attached portion of the toner supply portion such that the toner container is selectively attached to the toner supply portion. The attached portion includes an engaged portion around which first interruption keys are disposed. The attaching portion includes an engaging portion and a plurality of key members. The engaging portion is configured to be engaged with the engaged portion. The key members are larger in number than the first interruption keys and include second interruption keys formed in correspondence with the first interruption keys. Among the key members, the second interruption keys that interrupt with the first interruption keys are cut so that the engaging portion and the engaged portion can be engaged with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Koji Murata
  • Patent number: 9804530
    Abstract: A toner case includes a case main body, a housing frame, a communicating port, a conveying rib, and a conveying screw. The case main body is capable of containing a waste toner. The housing frame is configured to communicate with an inside of the case main body and to rotatably support the case main body. The communicating port is opened on a circumferential face of the housing frame and connected with an image forming part. The conveying rib rotates integrally with the case main body in a first direction so as to convey the waste toner along a direction of introducing the waste toner into the case main body. The conveying screw rotates integrally with the case main body in the first direction so as to convey the waste toner introduced into the housing frame via the communicating port toward the inside of the case main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Izumi, Koji Murata
  • Publication number: 20170293239
    Abstract: A toner case includes a case main body, a transmission member, and a cover. The case main body contains a toner and rotates around a rotation axis line. The transmission member is attached to an outer circumferential face of the case main body and configured to transmit rotation driving force to the case main body. The cover is configured to cover an opening part arranged at the case main body. The case main body includes a rotation restricting part and a movement restricting part. The rotation restricting part is configured to restrict a rotation of the transmission member with respect to the case main body. The movement restricting part is configured to restrict a movement in a direction of the rotation axis line of the transmission member with respect to the case main body. The transmission member is positioned between the cover and the movement restricting part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Koji MURATA
  • Publication number: 20170293241
    Abstract: A toner case includes a case main body, a cover, and an agitating member. The case main body is configured to contain a toner and to rotate. The cover is configured to cover an opening part arranged at the case main body and to maintain a rotation stop state when the case main body rotates, the cover having a communication space which communicates with an inside space of the case main body via the opening part. The agitating member is configured to rotate integrally with the case main body and to agitate the toner in the communication space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Koji MURATA
  • Publication number: 20170293240
    Abstract: A toner case includes a case main body, a cover, and a seal member. The case main body is configured to contain a toner and to rotate. The cover is configured to cover an opening part arranged at the case main body and to maintain a rotation stop state when the case main body rotates. The seal member is interposed between the case main body and the cover and configured to maintain a rotation stop state when the case main body rotates. At least a part of the seal member is composed of an elastic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Koji MURATA
  • Patent number: 9785089
    Abstract: A toner case includes a case main body, a supplying port, a collecting port, a supplying shutter, and a collecting shutter. The supplying shutter opens the supplying port in accordance with attachment of the case main body to a supplying attachment part, closes the supplying port in accordance with detachment of the case main body from the supplying attachment part, and closes the supplying port in a state that the case main body is attached to a collecting attachment part. The collecting shutter opens the collecting port in accordance with attachment of the case main body to the collecting attachment part, closes the collecting port in accordance with detachment of the case main body from the collecting attachment part, and closes the collecting port in a state that the case main body is attached to the supplying attachment part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Izumi, Koji Murata
  • Patent number: 9740142
    Abstract: A toner case includes a case main body and a cleaning member. The case main body is capable of containing a toner supplied to an image forming part arranged inside an apparatus main body and is attachable to and detachable from a supplying attachment part of the apparatus main body along an attachment and detachment direction. The cleaning member is arranged at an outer circumferential face of the case main body. The case main body rotates inside the supplying attachment part in a first direction so as to convey the toner toward a communicating port formed at a first side in the attachment and detachment direction. The cleaning member rotates integrally with the case main body in the first direction so as to clean an inner circumferential face of the supplying attachment part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Izumi, Koji Murata
  • Publication number: 20170219986
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a toner container, a container attachment portion, and a control portion. The toner container has a coupling portion. The container attachment portion includes a coupled portion that includes a first key member. A second key member of the coupling portion is formed at position where it does not interfere with the first key member in attachment state. The second key member is made of insulator. The coupled portion includes a contact terminal in which a contact is opened by the second key member and becomes OFF state when the toner container is inserted to attachment position, and the contact is closed and becomes ON state when the toner container is removed from the attachment position. The control portion detects the toner container attached to the container attachment portion when the contact of the contact terminal changes from the ON state to the OFF state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventor: Koji Murata
  • Publication number: 20170168425
    Abstract: A toner case includes a case main body, a housing frame, a communicating port, a conveying rib, and a conveying screw. The case main body is capable of containing a waste toner. The housing frame is configured to communicate with an inside of the case main body and to rotatably support the case main body. The communicating port is opened on a circumferential face of the housing frame and connected with an image forming part. The conveying rib rotates integrally with the case main body in a first direction so as to convey the waste toner along a direction of introducing the waste toner into the case main body. The conveying screw rotates integrally with the case main body in the first direction so as to convey the waste toner introduced into the housing frame via the communicating port toward the inside of the case main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Koji IZUMI, Koji MURATA
  • Publication number: 20170168426
    Abstract: A toner case includes a case main body and a cleaning member. The case main body is capable of containing a toner supplied to an image forming part arranged inside an apparatus main body and is attachable to and detachable from a supplying attachment part of the apparatus main body along an attachment and detachment direction. The cleaning member is arranged at an outer circumferential face of the case main body. The case main body rotates inside the supplying attachment part in a first direction so as to convey the toner toward a communicating port formed at a first side in the attachment and detachment direction. The cleaning member rotates integrally with the case main body in the first direction so as to clean an inner circumferential face of the supplying attachment part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Koji IZUMI, Koji MURATA
  • Patent number: D796575
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Koji Murata
  • Patent number: D798380
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Koji Murata