Patents by Inventor Kunio Yamashiro

Kunio Yamashiro 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).

  • Image forming apparatus having a rotating detection lever operable in vertical and horizontal positions
    Patent number: 5539510
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus capable of operating to form an image both in a horizontal installation of the apparatus and in a vertical installation thereof. The apparatus comprises a rotary endless latent image carrier; a latent image forming unit for forming a latent image on the latent image carrier; a developing unit for developing the latent image on the latent image carrier with a powder developer; and a transferring unit for transferring the developed image on the latent image carrier onto a sheet fed via a feeding path. The apparatus further comprises; a sheet detecting unit having a detection lever rotating about a rotary shaft, with a line connecting a center-of-rotation to a center-of-gravity being set at 40.degree. through 50.degree. with respect to a direction-of-gravity, and a detecting element for detecting the detection lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kunio Yamashiro, Masanori Ueda
  • Method of collecting wastes and system therefor
    Patent number: 4995765
    Abstract: A sanitary waste collection system and a method therefor which enable the free disposal of waste at various places in a building, and saves labor required for carrying and collecting the waste. The waste collection system includes charge ports provided at every floor of the building into which are thrown waste stored in waste containers of a certain configuration, vertical transport tubes connected to each floor of the building as well as charge ports, horizontal transport tubes connected to the lower ends of the vertical transport tubes and extending to a waste accumulation area, and an air blowing mechanism for force-feeding air in the horizontal transport tubes, with the diameters of the vertical and horizontal transport tubes and being a little larger than the outer diameter of the waste container in section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1991
    Assignees: Shimizu Construction Co., Ltd., Shinmeiwa Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoya Tokuhiro, Nobutaka Koibuchi, Teruhiko Miyauchi, Koshin Kikuchi, Jun Hirokawa, Kunio Yamashiro, Sakae Nishizuka, Ippei Watanabe, Shozo Maruo, Yohichiro Tsutsui, Sadahito Ishikawa
  • Blind mounting device
    Patent number: 4453688
    Abstract: A device for mounting a blind of a window frame or the like, which includes a base plate on which the blind is fixed by means of brackets and at least two supporting members which are fixed on the window frame, wall surface or the like in spaced relation with each other, in which the base plate can be fixedly hooked on the support members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1984
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nichibei
    Inventors: Akira Nakajima, Takayoshi Furukawa, Atsuo Nakano, Kunio Yamashiro, Katsumi Goda