Patents by Inventor Koji Otsuka
Koji Otsuka 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).
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Publication number: 20140169832Abstract: A corona discharger includes a discharge wire, and a surrounding member, that is provided with an opening portion which is an entrance of an air flow, that faces a surface of a member to be charged that rotates around a rotational axis of the member to be charged, that is arranged with a gap from the surface to be charged, and that surrounds the discharge wire in the direction of the rotational axis, wherein the opening portion is provided at a part of the surrounding member located on the upstream side of the discharge wire in a rotational direction of the member to be charged with the discharge wire.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2013Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki NAGAMORI, Koji OTSUKA, Masafumi KUDO, Kazuki INAMI, Yasunori MOMOMURA
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Patent number: 8748786Abstract: A multi-component package is provided which enables simultaneous heat cooking of a food product which does not require a long cooking time and a food product which requires a longer cooking time. The multi-component package includes a lower container having a bottomed, lower container main body for containing a first food product. The container further includes an upper container having an upper container main body for containing a second filled food product. A flange of the lower container main body and a flange of the upper container main body are engaged with each other so that the lower container and the upper container are combined integrally. A vapor vent is provided in a lower container lid material, whereby water vapor generated upon heating of the first food product heats the second food product in the upper container.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2010Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignees: Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kathryn Marie Birchmeier, Paul Andrew Cogley, Noriko Sakamoto, Koji Otsuka, Takashi Kado
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Patent number: 8750761Abstract: A charging device includes a discharge electrode that extends along an axial direction of a member to be charged; and a potential control plate disposed between the member to be charged and the discharge electrode and curved along a peripheral surface of the member to be charged. The potential control plate includes three or more structural lines that are arranged in a circumferential direction of the member to be charged and that linearly extend along the axial direction, and connecting portions arranged in the axial direction, each connecting portion connecting two or more of the three or more structural lines to each other, the two or more structural lines being next to each other in the circumferential direction. The structural lines connected by one of the connecting portions and those connected by another one of the connecting portions are at least partly different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuki Nagamori, Koji Otsuka, Kuniaki Tanaka, Arichika Tanaka
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Publication number: 20140140718Abstract: A blowing target structure includes an opening portion that (a) is an inlet into which the air flow from a blower pipe that has an elongated shape in one direction, (b) is elongated in the same direction as the one direction of an outlet of the blower pipe, (c) has a member that is provided at least on one end side in a lateral direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the opening portion to set an air permeability of a member side region of the opening portion to a value smaller than an air permeability of a region other than the member side region of the opening portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2013Publication date: May 22, 2014Inventors: Masafumi KUDO, Koji OTSUKA, Yuki NAGAMORI, Kazuki INAMI, Yasunori MOMOMURA
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Publication number: 20140119767Abstract: A blower pipe includes an inlet port, an outlet port, a flow path that connects the inlet port and the outlet port and is bent at least in one location, and plural flow control members that are provided in mutually different regions in a direction in which air in the flow path is caused to flow and that control the flow of the air, wherein a flow control member of the plural flow control members closest to the inlet port (a) cuts off a portion of a bent portion of the flow path while air crossing the portion, (b) makes an elongated gap to pass air, and (c) satisfies following condition; when a virtual straight line which passes through both end portions of the elongated gap is drawn, the virtual straight line lies downstream of an extension line of a wall immediately before the flow path is bent.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2013Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuki INAMI, Yasunori MOMOMURA, Yuki NAGAMORI, Koji OTSUKA, Masafumi KUDO
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Patent number: 8676091Abstract: A charging device includes a discharge electrode that extends along a rotational axis direction of a member to be charged that rotates and has an arc-shaped outer peripheral surface, the discharge electrode being arranged to face the outer peripheral surface; a potential control plate arranged between the outer peripheral surface of the member to be charged and the discharge electrode and extending in the rotational axis direction of the member to be charged, the potential control plate being plastically deformed so as to independently maintain the shape of the potential control plate; and a support member that supports the potential control plate only at both end portions of the potential control plate in a long-side direction of the potential control plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2011Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Otsuka, Yuki Nagamori, Arichika Tanaka, Tomoyoshi Chihara
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Patent number: 8608350Abstract: A lighting device is provided to include a plurality of lens bodies. The connecting portion connecting the plurality of lens bodies includes a first major surface and a second major surface opposite to the first major surface. The first major surface is in contact with the lateral portion at a first contact under an outer edge of the leading lens. The second major surface is in contact with the lateral portion at a second contact located below the first contact. The first contact is located outside of a point of intersection along the first major surface with respect to the center of each lens body, the point of intersection at which an extraction of the first major surface intersects with an extension of a ray of the emitted light which is incident on the light incident surface and is projected on the second contact.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2011Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Koji Otsuka
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Publication number: 20130279939Abstract: A grid electrode that is substantially thin-plate-shaped includes an opening section in which plural openings are formed and a frame section that surrounds the opening section. The grid electrode is curved along a short-side direction thereof and includes portions having different thicknesses, the portions being arranged in the short-side direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2012Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki NAGAMORI, Koji OTSUKA
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Publication number: 20130165036Abstract: Provided is a blower pipe with an inlet, an outlet, a passage part formed with a passage space to cause air to flow therein, and suppressing parts that are provided in different parts in a direction in which air in the passage space of the passage part is caused to flow and that suppress the flow of the air, wherein an outlet suppressing part constructed so that the passage space in the outlet is closed by a permeable member dotted with ventilation portions is provided in the outlet of the passage part as one of the suppressing parts, and wherein the permeability of an end region present at least at one end in the lateral direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction among regions along the longitudinal direction of the opening shape of the outlet is set to a smaller value than the permeability of regions other than the end region.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2012Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Masafumi KUDO, Koji OTSUKA, Yuki NAGAMORI, Kazuki INAMI, Yasunori MOMOMURA
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Publication number: 20130153764Abstract: Provided is an air supply tube including an inlet port that takes in air, an outlet port that is arranged opposite a portion of an elongated target structure in a longitudinal direction, to which air taken in from the inlet port is to be supplied, and has an elongated opening shape, a channel portion in which a channel space for allowing air to flow between the inlet port and the outlet port is formed, and plural suppressing portions that suppress the flow of air, wherein the plural suppressing portions include at least a most downstream suppressing portion, a first upstream suppressing portion that is provided in a part initially located on the upstream side in the air flow direction, and a gap regulating portion that forms an extended gap at the same interval.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2012Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasunori MOMOMURA, Kazuki INAMI, Yuki NAGAMORI, Koji OTSUKA, Masafumi KUDO
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Patent number: 8466930Abstract: The fact that B and R are close to a U axis and to a V axis, respectively, is noted. On that basis, from an example of color adjustment parameters set in directions of colors, it is found out that, when inputted V is in a negative range, B has a small influence. Accordingly, a B component is omitted from calculation in order to reduce a calculation amount. Similarly, components having small influences are omitted when B is in a positive range, when U is in the positive range, and when U is in the negative range. Thereby, adjustment parameters AR, AG, and AB set in directions shown in the drawing can be defined. When inputted V is in the positive range, a V component can be adjusted by multiplying AR by the inputted V. Similar processing is performed when inputted V is in the negative range, when U is in the positive range, and when U is the negative range, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2008Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koji Otsuka, Daisuke Koyama, Osamu Mamba
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Patent number: 8460843Abstract: A glass substrate obtained by a method including measuring flatness of a glass substrate surface and measuring concentration distribution of dopant in the substrate. Processing conditions of the surface are set up for each site of the substrate based on results from the measuring the flatness and the measuring the distribution, and the finishing is carried out while keeping an angle formed by normal line of the substrate and incident beam onto the surface at from 30 to 89°. The surface is subjected to second finishing for improving an RMS in a high spatial frequency region. The surface after the second finishing satisfies the requirements: an RMS slope in the region that 5 ?m<? (spatial wavelength)<1 mm is not more than 0.5 mRad and an RMS slope in the region that 250 nm<? (spatial wavelength)<5 ?m is not more than 0.6 mRad.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2011Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Koji Otsuka, Kenji Okamura
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Publication number: 20130101309Abstract: A blowing device includes a blower and an air duct including an inlet, an outlet, and a body. The outlet faces a longitudinal portion of an oblong target structure toward which air is blown. The outlet allows air to be discharged in a direction that is substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal direction in which the longitudinal portion extends. The inlet has an opening and the outlet has an oblong opening, and the opening of the inlet and the opening of the outlet having different shapes. The body has a passage space formed therein. Plural restraining portions that restrain airflow are disposed at different positions in the passage space in the direction of airflow. A most downstream one of the restraining portions is formed so as to at least partially cover the passage space with an air-permeable member having plural air passage portions that are distributed the air-permeable member.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2012Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuki INAMI, Yasunori MOMOMURA, Yuki NAGAMORI, Koji OTSUKA, Masafumi KUDO
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Patent number: 8416257Abstract: Shown is a diagram showing input-output characteristics for color adjustment. The horizontal axis represents an input, and the vertical axis represents an output. In this color adjustment technique, first, so as to prevent degradation the luminance of white after white correction, correction coefficients are determined so that the smallest value thereof may be 1. Note that “1” here is not a strict value. To be more specific, in contrast to the conventional technique in which correction is performed with the largest value being made equal to about “1,” the present embodiments sets the smallest value at about “1.” This idea itself is a first point which makes the embodiments different from the conventional technique. When doing so, all the correction coefficients are “1” or larger. In the case where a correction coefficient is “1” or larger, when the input is large, the output is saturated.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2009Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Osamu Mamba, Koji Otsuka, Yasufumi Hagiwara, Daisuke Koyama
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Patent number: 8351734Abstract: In an X-Y conversion chart, a threshold Th is defined as Y=0, that is, defined on the X axis, a range from ?Th to +Th is defined as a range in which smoothing processing is performed, and a range outside ?Th to +Th is defined as a range in which sharpening processing is performed. Among equations denoted by Y1 and Y2 expressed by two linear straight lines, intersections of both the equations Y1 and Y2 are set to the maximum value and the minimum value of an X-Y conversion equation in this case. The threshold is expressed by an intersection of Y2 and the X axis. This algorithm is formed by three factors of: a coefficient ? indicating the strength of smoothing; a coefficient ? indicating the strength of sharpening; and a threshold Th on the X axis for determining switching between the smoothing processing and the sharpening processing.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koji Otsuka, Osamu Manba, Yasufumi Hagiwara, Daisuke Koyama
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Publication number: 20130004062Abstract: With a pixel included in image data as a reference pixel, a pixel that shares the same pixel value as the reference pixel or a pixel similar to the reference pixel is judged as a shared pixel, and for the pixel judged as the shared pixel, color of the reference pixel is regarded as a color judgment result of the shared pixel, thus making it possible to reduce color calculation processing for the shared pixel. This makes it possible to provide a color judging apparatus operating at higher speed and the like. Thereby, it is possible to provide the color judging apparatus operable at high speed and the like by reducing the number of times of the color calculation processing executed for an input image.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2011Publication date: January 3, 2013Inventors: Koji Otsuka, Osamu Manba
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Publication number: 20120251180Abstract: A charging device includes a discharge electrode that extends along an axial direction of a member to be charged; and a potential control plate disposed between the member to be charged and the discharge electrode and curved along a peripheral surface of the member to be charged. The potential control plate includes three or more structural lines that are arranged in a circumferential direction of the member to be charged and that linearly extend along the axial direction, and connecting portions arranged in the axial direction, each connecting portion connecting two or more of the three or more structural lines to each other, the two or more structural lines being next to each other in the circumferential direction. The structural lines connected by one of the connecting portions and those connected by another one of the connecting portions are at least partly different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2011Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki NAGAMORI, Koji OTSUKA, Kuniaki TANAKA, Arichika TANAKA
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Publication number: 20120230732Abstract: A charging device includes a discharge electrode that extends along a rotational axis direction of a member to be charged that rotates and has an arc-shaped outer peripheral surface, the discharge electrode being arranged to face the outer peripheral surface; a potential control plate arranged between the outer peripheral surface of the member to be charged and the discharge electrode and extending in the rotational axis direction of the member to be charged, the potential control plate being plastically deformed so as to independently maintain the shape of the potential control plate; and a support member that supports the potential control plate only at both end portions of the potential control plate in a long-side direction of the potential control plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2011Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji OTSUKA, Yuki NAGAMORI, Arichika TANAKA, Tomoyoshi CHIHARA
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Patent number: 8182708Abstract: The present invention is to provide a method by which the waviness generated in a glass substrate surface during pre-polishing are removed and the glass substrate is finished so as to have a highly flat surface. The present invention relates a method of finishing a pre-polished glass substrate surface, the glass substrate being made of quartz glass containing a dopant and comprising SiO2 as a main component, the finishing method comprising: measuring a concentration distribution of the dopant contained in the glass substrate; and measuring a surface shape of the glass substrate in the pre-polished state, wherein conditions for processing the glass substrate surface are set for each part of the glass substrate based on the measurement results of the concentration distribution of the dopant and the surface shape of the glass substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2007Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, LimitedInventor: Koji Otsuka
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Patent number: 8137574Abstract: The present invention is to provide a processing method for manufacturing a highly flat and highly smooth glass substrate with good productivity. A highly flat and highly smooth glass substrate is obtained with good productivity by processing of a glass substrate, which comprises a step of measuring the surface shape of the glass substrate prior to processing, a step of processing the surface of the substrate by changing a processing condition for each site (first processing step), and a step of finish-polishing the surface of the glass substrate that has been subjected to the first processing step (second processing step).Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2008Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Koji Otsuka, Hiroshi Kojima, Masabumi Ito