Patents by Inventor Kouichi Kimura
Kouichi Kimura 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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Patent number: 11835892Abstract: An image forming apparatus, includes: an image forming unit that forms a toner image on a medium; a heating unit that is provided on a downstream side in a transport path from the image forming unit and that is configured to heat a medium being transported in a non-contact manner; a fixing unit that is provided on a downstream side in the transport path from the heating unit and fixes the toner image on the medium; a shielding unit to which force is applied so as to be inform a closed state in which the heating unit is shielded; and an open state forming unit configured to receive power supply to drive the shielding unit so as to form an open state in which the heating unit is opened, and maintain the open state while the power is being supplied.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.Inventors: Hideki Kuge, Norio Ogawahara, Kouichi Kimura, Mitsutoshi Hongo
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Publication number: 20230314994Abstract: A pressing device includes a first pressurization unit; a second pressurization unit that is provided to face the first pressurization unit, and sandwiches and pressurizes a medium moving in a contact region formed between the first pressurization unit and the second pressurization unit; and a contact region variable unit that changes a width dimension of the contact region along a moving direction of the medium in a state of maintaining a contact pressure on an outlet side of the contact region, in varying a contact state of the contact region.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Shogo KAMIYA, Takashi OHASHI, Kouichi KIMURA, Shingo AKIYAMA, Toyohiko AWANO
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Patent number: 11703779Abstract: A fixing device includes: a heating unit configured to heat a medium to be conveyed along a conveyance path by radiation; and a shielding unit made of non-metallic material, the shielding unit being configured to form a shielding state in which radiation from the heating unit is shielded and a non-shielding state in which radiation from the heating unit is not shielded, in which the shielding unit being expanded in a direction intersecting the radiation in the shielding state and is stored in the non-shielding state.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Mitsutoshi Hongo, Norio Ogawahara, Hideki Kuge, Kouichi Kimura, Takayuki Yamashita
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Publication number: 20230174331Abstract: A paper transport device includes a transport mechanism that transports paper to which an image is transferred to a fixing device while sucking the paper and a switching mechanism that switches between suction regions in a width direction of the transport mechanism, which corresponds to a width direction of the paper, according to a size of the paper.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yasutaka NAITO, Koichi IMAZU, Noriyuki MIYOSHI, Kouichi KIMURA, Makoto HASEGAWA, Satoshi NAKAMURA, Masakatsu EDA
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Publication number: 20220075297Abstract: A fixing device includes: a heating unit configured to heat a medium to be conveyed along a conveyance path by radiation; and a shielding unit made of non-metallic material, the shielding unit being configured to form a shielding state in which radiation from the heating unit is shielded and a non-shielding state in which radiation from the heating unit is not shielded, in which the shielding unit being expanded in a direction intersecting the radiation in the shielding state and is stored in the non-shielding state.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Mitsutoshi HONGO, Norio OGAWAHARA, Hideki KUGE, Kouichi KIMURA, Takayuki YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20220075298Abstract: An image forming apparatus, includes: an image forming unit that forms a toner image on a medium; a heating unit that is provided on a downstream side in a transport path from the image forming unit and that is configured to heat a medium being transported in a non-contact manner; a fixing unit that is provided on a downstream side in the transport path from the heating unit and fixes the toner image on the medium; a shielding unit to which force is applied so as to be inform a closed state in which the heating unit is shielded; and an open state forming unit configured to receive power supply to drive the shielding unit so as to form an open state in which the heating unit is opened, and maintain the open state while the power is being supplied.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Hideki KUGE, Norio OGAWAHARA, Kouichi KIMURA, Mitsutoshi HONGO
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Patent number: 11116029Abstract: A network entity (5) sends, to a mobility management entity (6) or a subscriber server (9), a request message in order to configure the mobility management entity (6) to report a second identifier to be used by a radio access network node (2) for identifying a radio terminal (1). Further, the network entity (5) receives the second identifier from the mobility management entity (6) directly or through the subscriber server (9) and communicates with the radio access network node (2) by using the second identifier. It is thus, for example, possible to allow an MEC server (or an MEC application hosted on the MEC server) and the radio access network (RAN) node to directly exchange therebetween control messages regarding a specific radio terminal.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Takanori Iwai, Nobuhiko Itoh, Ling Xu, Kenki Takagi, Toshiyuki Tamura, Tomoaki Hokao, Naoaki Suzuki, Hisashi Futaki, Sadafuku Hayashi, Kazuki Eguchi, Kouichi Kimura, Hiroki Aoki, Hideki Bessho, Yoshinori Watanabe, Tooru Kikuchi
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Patent number: 10867134Abstract: A multicore CPU of a text string data analyzing device: loads a plurality of blocks obtained by dividing a text string dictionary into a memory; executes, in parallel on block groups executable independently of each other, an entry registration process of registering, character by character, unregistered text strings of text string data as new entries in the blocks in order from last characters; and outputs, as BW transformed data of the text string dictionary in which the text string data is already registered, a text string obtained by coupling text strings registered in entries of the blocks in a state in which no unregistered text strings of the blocks exists.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2016Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATIONInventor: Kouichi Kimura
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Patent number: 10810239Abstract: A sequence data analyzer comprising: a read dictionary preparation unit creating a read sequence dictionary based on a concatenation string, the concatenation string constituted of a pair of a left sequence and a right sequence, which are obtained by sequencing a sample DNA fragment respectively from the left and right ends, and connecting characters connecting these sequences together; and a sample reconstruction unit extracting, as a sample sequence, a string up to a terminal character positioned in the string of a hit position of a query sequence in the read sequence dictionary, and extracting, as a mate sequence, the left sequence or right sequence until the appearance of a terminal character on the side where the hit position doesn't exist in the sample sequence.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2015Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech CorporationInventor: Kouichi Kimura
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Patent number: 10747153Abstract: A belt-type transport device includes a belt, a pressure unit, a nip forming unit, a belt stretching roller, an inclination controller, a contact unit, and a support unit. The belt is an endless belt, has an outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface, and is to be rotated. The pressure unit is in contact with the outer circumferential surface of the belt. The nip forming unit presses the belt against the pressure unit so as to form a nip through which a recording medium is to be transported. The belt stretching roller is disposed inside the belt and stretches the belt. The inclination controller controls inclination of the belt stretching roller. The contact unit is provided along a width direction of the belt and is in contact with the inner circumferential surface of the belt. The support unit supports the contact unit such that the contact unit is able to follow inclination of the belt which is changed due to the inclination of the belt stretching roller.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Mitsutoshi Hongo, Kouichi Kimura, Hideki Kuge, Kei Tanaka, Noboru Hirakawa, Takashi Matsubara, Takashi Ohashi, Takashi Ochi, Toshimasa Toyama
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Publication number: 20200218184Abstract: A belt-type transport device includes a belt, a pressure unit, a nip forming unit, a belt stretching roller, an inclination controller, a contact unit, and a support unit. The belt is an endless belt, has an outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface, and is to be rotated. The pressure unit is in contact with the outer circumferential surface of the belt. The nip forming unit presses the belt against the pressure unit so as to form a nip through which a recording medium is to be transported. The belt stretching roller is disposed inside the belt and stretches the belt. The inclination controller controls inclination of the belt stretching roller. The contact unit is provided along a width direction of the belt and is in contact with the inner circumferential surface of the belt. The support unit supports the contact unit such that the contact unit is able to follow inclination of the belt which is changed due to the inclination of the belt stretching roller.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2019Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsutoshi HONGO, Kouichi KIMURA, Hideki KUGE, Kei TANAKA, Noboru HIRAKAWA, Takashi MATSUBARA, Takashi OHASHI, Takashi OCHI, Toshimasa TOYAMA
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Publication number: 20190254108Abstract: A network entity (5) sends, to a mobility management entity (6) or a subscriber server (9), a request message in order to configure the mobility management entity (6) to report a second identifier to be used by a radio access network node (2) for identifying a radio terminal (1). Further, the network entity (5) receives the second identifier from the mobility management entity (6) directly or through the subscriber server (9) and communicates with the radio access network node (2) by using the second identifier. It is thus, for example, possible to allow an MEC server (or an MEC application hosted on the MEC server) and the radio access network (RAN) node to directly exchange therebetween control messages regarding a specific radio terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2017Publication date: August 15, 2019Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Takanori IWAI, Nobuhiko ITOH, Ling XU, Kenki TAKAGI, Toshiyuki TAMURA, Tomoaki HOKAO, Naoaki SUZUKI, Hisashi FUTAKI, Sadafuku HAYASHI, Kazuki EGUCHI, Kouichi KIMURA, Hiroki AOKI, Hideki BESSHO, Yoshinori WATANABE, Tooru KIKUCHI
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Publication number: 20190205394Abstract: A multicore CPU of a text string data analyzing device: loads a plurality of blocks obtained by dividing a text string dictionary into a memory; executes, in parallel on block groups executable independently of each other, an entry registration process of registering, character by character, unregistered text strings of text string data as new entries in the blocks in order from last characters; and outputs, as BW transformed data of the text string dictionary in which the text string data is already registered, a text string obtained by coupling text strings registered in entries of the blocks in a state in which no unregistered text strings of the blocks exists.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2016Publication date: July 4, 2019Inventor: Kouichi KIMURA
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Patent number: 10192028Abstract: The computational cost for a mapping process performed in analyzing genome/exome/transcriptome is reduced by sorting all cyclic permutations or suffixes of all read sequences to allow a search to be performed on the basis of any base sequence as a key. Also performed is computing and storing, for each base position in a genome sequence, the minimum length for uniqueness (MLU) at which a partial sequence starting from the base position becomes unique in the genome. In analysis of variations, a target region is scanned to inspect the number of matching read sequences that contain a partial sequence with a length of MLU and thus estimate the position of a variation, and then, the read sequences are collected at a position where the possibility of a variation having occurred is high to perform comparison analysis of the sequences.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2013Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventor: Kouichi Kimura
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Patent number: 9933731Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a heating unit that heats a recording material, a contact member that is positioned upstream or downstream from the heating unit in a transport direction of the recording material and is in contact with the recording material, the contact member being configured in such a manner that a portion of the contact member that is in contact with the recording material moves with the recording material, a temperature detection unit that detects a temperature of the contact member, and a control unit that controls, based on a detection result obtained by the temperature detection unit, an output of the heating unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2016Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kouichi Kimura, Toshinori Sasaki, Mizuki Sugino, Mitsutoshi Hongo
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Patent number: 9904221Abstract: A preheating device includes two first inverting members disposed at different positions while obliquely intersecting a feeding direction of a continuous recording medium on which an unfixed image is formed, the first inverting members inverting the recording medium by passing a back surface of the recording medium, on which the unfixed image is not formed, therealong before a fixing operation, and at least one heating rotating body disposed at a position further on an outside than a side edge portion of the recording medium in the feeding direction to preheat the recording medium before the fixing operation by passing a portion of the back surface of the recording medium present between the two first inverting members so that the portion of the back surface is wound around the heating rotating body.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2017Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kei Tanaka, Kouichi Kimura, Mizuki Sugino, Mitsutoshi Hongo, Toshinori Sasaki
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Publication number: 20170357196Abstract: A preheating device includes two first inverting members disposed at different positions while obliquely intersecting a feeding direction of a continuous recording medium on which an unfixed image is formed, the first inverting members inverting the recording medium by passing a back surface of the recording medium, on which the unfixed image is not formed, therealong before a fixing operation, and at least one heating rotating body disposed at a position further on an outside than a side edge portion of the recording medium in the feeding direction to preheat the recording medium before the fixing operation by passing a portion of the back surface of the recording medium present between the two first inverting members so that the portion of the back surface is wound around the heating rotating body.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2017Publication date: December 14, 2017Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kei TANAKA, Kouichi KIMURA, Mizuki SUGINO, Mitsutoshi HONGO, Toshinori SASAKI
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Publication number: 20170255140Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a heating unit that heats a recording material, a contact member that is positioned upstream or downstream from the heating unit in a transport direction of the recording material and is in contact with the recording material, the contact member being configured in such a manner that a portion of the contact member that is in contact with the recording material moves with the recording material, a temperature detection unit that detects a temperature of the contact member, and a control unit that controls, based on a detection result obtained by the temperature detection unit, an output of the heating unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2016Publication date: September 7, 2017Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kouichi KIMURA, Toshinori SASAKI, Mizuki SUGINO, Mitsutoshi HONGO
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Patent number: 9692930Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image compressing unit, and a print-data generating unit. The image compressing unit divides the image of one page's worth of the document into each band region by a predetermined width in the sub-scanning direction and sets a rectangular region by a further division of each band region by a predetermined width in the main-scanning direction to generate rectangular compressed data. When the print-data generating unit generates the print data where a plurality of pages of document image are aggregated in one sheet, and an region in which the image does not exist occurs in a last page after the aggregation, the storing control unit complements the region in which the image does not exist in the rectangular compressed data storage unit using the white image data stored in the white image data storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Kouichi Kimura
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Patent number: 9683470Abstract: An exhaust gas control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, controls an exhaust operation of the internal combustion engine (200) provided with an exhaust gas purification catalyst (216) in an exhaust passage (215). The exhaust gas control apparatus for the internal combustion engine is provided with; a warming-up device configured to warm up the exhaust gas purification catalyst; and an oxygen supplying device (220, 221) configured to supply oxygen to the exhaust gas purification catalyst after the end of the warm-up. This makes it possible to preferably desorb sulfur adsorbed to the exhaust gas purification catalyst during warm-up. It is therefore possible to suppress a reduction in purification ability of the exhaust gas purification catalyst due to sulfur coating.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2011Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takahiko Fujiwara, Norihisa Nakagawa, Kouichi Kimura, Shuntaro Okazaki, Keisuke Nagasaka, Ichiro Kitamura, Satoshi Kamitani, Koji Morita