Patents by Inventor Kunichi Yamashita

Kunichi Yamashita 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).

  • Patent number: 11629515
    Abstract: A booth that has an opening through which a user enters and exits the booth and a desk and a chair installed in a space surrounded by a floor and a side wall, the booth includes a movable sound insulation member that is installable to enclose the user in a case where the user is below a top portion of the booth while being in the booth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shu Watanabe, Kunichi Yamashita, Akihide Kawamura, Masamichi Kimura, Shigenaga Fujimura
  • Publication number: 20230089328
    Abstract: A booth includes an internal space configured to be used by a user, a door which is controlled to unlock in an electric-powered manner when an information is detected based on a user operation, and a monitor screen which is used in order to project an image output from a device brought by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shu WATANABE, Akihide KAWAMURA, Kunichi YAMASHITA, Akira TAKAHASHI, Yoshihiro SHIBANAI
  • Patent number: 11542701
    Abstract: A booth includes a replaceable side wall that surrounds an internal space to be used by a user, and the side wall is provided with at least one entrance/exit door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shu Watanabe, Akihide Kawamura, Kunichi Yamashita, Akira Takahashi, Yoshihiro Shibanai
  • Publication number: 20220243487
    Abstract: A booth that has an opening through which a user enters and exits the booth and a desk and a chair installed in a space surrounded by a floor and a side wall, the booth includes a movable sound insulation member that is installable to enclose the user in a case where the user is below a top portion of the booth while being in the booth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shu WATANABE, Kunichi YAMASHITA, Akihide KAWAMURA, Masamichi KIMURA, Shigenaga FUJIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220047762
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a processor configured to: acquire reservation information, the reservation information being information about a reservation of a booth; and make a determination regarding an improvement of an air environment by an improvement mechanism that improves the air environment provided inside the booth, on a basis of the acquired reservation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shu WATANABE, Kunichi YAMASHITA, Kengo TOKUCHI, Masamichi KIMURA, Kota NAKAYAMA, Akihide KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210189714
    Abstract: A booth includes a replaceable side wall that surrounds an internal space to be used by a user, and the side wall is provided with at least one entrance/exit door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shu WATANABE, Akihide KAWAMURA, Kunichi YAMASHITA, Akira TAKAHASHI, Yoshihiro SHIBANAI
  • Patent number: 10975564
    Abstract: A booth includes a replaceable side wall that surrounds an internal space to be used by a user, and the side wall is provided with at least one entrance/exit door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shu Watanabe, Akihide Kawamura, Kunichi Yamashita, Akira Takahashi, Yoshihiro Shibanai
  • Publication number: 20200380424
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a recognition unit that recognizes arrival of a user at a reservable space, and a switch unit that, in a case where the user is allowed to use the reservable space, switches from a state of blocking usage of the reservable space by the user to a state of not blocking the usage of the reservable space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihide KAWAMURA, Shu WATANABE, Kunichi YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20200018060
    Abstract: A booth includes a replaceable side wall that surrounds an internal space to be used by a user, and the side wall is provided with at least one entrance/exit door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shu WATANABE, Akihide KAWAMURA, Kunichi YAMASHITA, Akira TAKAHASHI, Yoshihiro SHIBANAI
  • Patent number: 8342672
    Abstract: A recording apparatus including: an intermediate transfer member; an image forming composition layer formation unit that supplies an image forming composition to the intermediate transfer member, the image forming composition containing a curable material that cures upon application of an external stimulus; an ink application unit that applies ink to the image forming composition layer that has been formed on the intermediate transfer member; a transfer unit that transfers the image forming composition layer from the intermediate transfer member to a recording medium by contacting the image forming composition layer onto which the ink has been applied with the recording medium; and a first stimulus application unit that applies a stimulus to the image forming composition layer that cures the image forming composition layer, the stimulus being applied at least one of immediately before the image forming composition layer comes into contact with the recording medium, or during the contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunichi Yamashita, Hiroshi Ikeda, Kentaro Ageishi, Yoshiro Yamashita, Ken Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8029090
    Abstract: An image forming method including: forming a liquid receiving particle layer on an intermediate transfer member using a liquid receiving particle that is capable of receiving a recording liquid including a recording material; forming an image of the recording material on a surface of the liquid receiving particle layer by applying a liquid droplet of the recording liquid to the liquid receiving particle layer on the basis of image data and holding the recording material on the surface of the liquid receiving particle layer on the intermediate transfer member; applying a transfer auxiliary liquid in at least a portion of a formation range of the image; and transferring the liquid receiving particle layer to which the recording liquid is applied to a transfer receiving member from the intermediate transfer member, such that the image is interposed between the transfer receiving member and the liquid receiving particle layer is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Numata, Hiroshi Ikeda, Satoshi Mohri, Kunichi Yamashita, Masatoshi Araki, Masashi Hiratsuka
  • Publication number: 20110048324
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes: a curable solution layer forming device that forms a curable solution layer by supplying a curable solution to a recording member or an intermediate member, the curable solution including at least a curable material to be cured by an external stimulus, and a water-absorbing component; an ink applying device that applies an ink to the curable solution layer; a stimulus supplying device that supplies the stimulus for curing the curable solution layer, to the curable solution layer; and a water-absorption controlling component-contact device that brings a liquid, including a component that controls water-absorption by the water-absorbing component, into contact with the curable solution layer, before or after the ink is applied to the curable solution layer by the ink applying device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunichi YAMASHITA, Satoshi MOHRI, Masatoshi ARAKI, Hiroshi IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20100271419
    Abstract: Droplet ejecting apparatus has a recording medium carrier portion provided with recording medium carrier rollers conveying a recording medium, a droplet ejecting portion discharging droplets to the recording medium, and a droplet adherence preventing liquid applying portion applying droplet adherence preventing liquid preventing adherence of the droplets to at least one of the recording medium carrier rollers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunichi Yamashita, Ken Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 7784929
    Abstract: Droplet ejecting apparatus has a recording medium carrier portion provided with recording medium carrier rollers conveying a recording medium, a droplet ejecting portion discharging droplets to the recording medium, and a droplet adherence preventing liquid applying portion applying droplet adherence preventing liquid preventing adherence of the droplets to at least one of the recording medium carrier rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunichi Yamashita, Ken Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 7744180
    Abstract: A recording device including an intermediate transfer unit; a supply unit that supplies ink receiving particles that receive an ink onto the intermediate transfer unit in the form of a layer; a particle density increasing unit that increases the particle density of the layer of the ink receiving particles supplied onto the intermediate transfer unit; an ink application unit that applies an ink to the layer of the ink receiving particles supplied onto the intermediate transfer unit; a transfer unit that transfers the layer of the ink receiving particles onto a recording medium; and a fixing unit that fixes the layer of the ink receiving particles transferred onto the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Mohri, Hiroshi Ikeda, Masatoshi Araki, Manabu Numata, Kunichi Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20100156971
    Abstract: The present invention provides a recording apparatus, which ejects a second liquid to a non-image area other than an image area formed by dots recorded by ejecting ink droplets onto a curable solution layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi IKEDA, Kunichi YAMASHITA
  • Patent number: 7658487
    Abstract: A controller for a liquid drop ejecting device including a first head with plural first liquid drop ejectors, and a second head with plural second liquid drop ejectors, is provided. The controller includes: a scanning controlling section scanning at least the first head plural times a same region of a recording medium; and an ejection controlling section controlling the first and second head such that a proportion of an applied amount, per unit surface area, of the second liquid drops with respect to an applied amount, per unit surface area, of the first liquid drops in a first scan, is within a range of 0 to a first value, and the proportion in scans from a second scan on is within a range of a second value to 1, and the proportion in the first scan is smaller than the proportion in the scans from the second scan on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunichi Yamashita, Ken Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 7614735
    Abstract: An ink jet recording method utilizing an ink set for ink jet recording which includes at least two types of liquids including an ink that contains at least a colorant, and a liquid composition that contains at least a component for aggregating and/or thickening the ink. The relation represented by the following formula (1) is satisfied: b2/a2<b1/a1 ??Formula (1) wherein a1 and b1 represent the respective amounts of the ink and the liquid composition applied per unit area, when the ink is applied to the recording material before the liquid composition is applied; a2 and b2 represent the respective amounts of the ink and the liquid composition applied per unit area, when the liquid composition is applied to the recording material before the ink is applied; and a1 and b1 satisfy the relation a1>b1 and a2 and b2 satisfy the relation a2>b2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunichi Yamashita, Ken Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 7604339
    Abstract: The present invention provides an ink jet recording method and an ink jet recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording medium by using an ink containing a coloring agent and a liquid composition containing a component for coagulating and/or thickening the ink. The method is characterized in that the ink and the liquid composition are ejected onto the recording medium such that they are not in contact with each other on the recording medium immediately after the ejection and come into contact when a certain period of time has lapsed since the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunichi Yamashita, Ken Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20090237479
    Abstract: A recording apparatus including: an intermediate transfer member; an image forming composition layer formation unit that supplies an image forming composition to the intermediate transfer member, the image forming composition containing a curable material that cures upon application of an external stimulus; an ink application unit that applies an ink to the image forming composition layer that has been formed on the intermediate transfer member; a transfer unit that transfers the image forming composition layer from the intermediate transfer member to a recording medium by contacting the image forming composition layer onto which the ink has been applied with the recording medium; and a first stimulus application unit that applies a stimulus to the image forming composition layer that cures the image forming composition layer, the stimulus being applied at least one of immediately before the image forming composition layer comes into contact with the recording medium, or during the contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunichi Yamashita, Hiroshi Ikeda, Kentaro Ageishi, Yoshiro Yamashita, Ken Hashimoto