Patents by Inventor Maho Tanaka

Maho Tanaka 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: 20240116435
    Abstract: A utility vehicle includes a fixing portion to which a lamp is fixed, and a support portion that supports the fixing portion and is capable of switching a position of the fixing portion between a use position where at least a portion of the lamp is located outside a vehicle body with respect to a fender and a storage position where the lamp is located inside the vehicle body with respect to the fender.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Shinji FUJIMOTO, Norita TOTTORI, Ryosuke TANAKA, Maho YAMANAKA
  • Patent number: 11894711
    Abstract: An in-vehicle wireless electric power feeding device is used in a vehicle, wirelessly performs electric power feeding to an electric power reception device (e.g., smartphone), and stops the electric power feeding at a temperature not lower than or higher than a predetermined first temperature threshold. The in-vehicle wireless electric power feeding device SD includes an electric power transmission unit that wirelessly performs electric power feeding to the electric power reception device, a temperature measurement unit that measures the temperature of the electric power transmission unit, and a control unit that controls the electric power transmission unit so that the electric power transmission unit wirelessly performs electric power feeding to the electric power reception device when the temperature measured by the temperature measurement unit at startup is not higher than or lower than a predetermined second temperature threshold higher than the first temperature threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei Takagi, Maho Tanaka, Takayoshi Nishijima
  • Publication number: 20210359537
    Abstract: An in-vehicle wireless electric power feeding device is used in a vehicle, wirelessly performs electric power feeding to an electric power reception device (e.g., smartphone), and stops the electric power feeding at a temperature not lower than or higher than a predetermined first temperature threshold. The in-vehicle wireless electric power feeding device SD includes an electric power transmission unit that wirelessly performs electric power feeding to the electric power reception device, a temperature measurement unit that measures the temperature of the electric power transmission unit, and a control unit that controls the electric power transmission unit so that the electric power transmission unit wirelessly performs electric power feeding to the electric power reception device when the temperature measured by the temperature measurement unit at startup is not higher than or lower than a predetermined second temperature threshold higher than the first temperature threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Ryohei TAKAGI, Maho TANAKA, Takayoshi NISHIJIMA
  • Patent number: 10895815
    Abstract: A toner including: a toner particle including a toner base particle containing a binder resin, and an organosilicon condensate present on a surface of the toner base particle, wherein a charge attenuation constant of the toner is 3.5×10?3 or more to 1.0×100 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenta Kamikura, Kunihiko Nakamura, Maho Tanaka, Fumiya Hatakeyama
  • Patent number: 10635010
    Abstract: A toner having a toner particle having a plurality of fine particles on the surface of a toner base particle, the toner base particle contains a binder resin, wherein a fine particle layer A constituted of a plurality of the fine particles is observed in an EDX mapping image of the constituent elements in a cross section of the toner particle as provided by EDX of the toner particle cross section observed using TEM; a fine particle B, containing a metal compound containing at least one metal element M selected from all the metal elements belonging to Groups 3 to 13, is observed in the fine particle layer A; and the number-average particle diameter D of the fine particle B, the average value H of the thickness of the fine particle layer A, and the standard deviation S on the thickness of the fine particle layer A satisfy prescribed relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenta Kamikura, Kunihiko Nakamura, Maho Tanaka, Yusuke Kosaki
  • Patent number: 10551758
    Abstract: Provided is a toner, including a toner particle having: a toner base particle containing a binder resin and a colorant; and protrusion derived from a resin fine particle in a surface of the toner base particle, wherein the protrusion is covered with a condensation product of an organosilicon compound represented by the formula (1), and wherein the resin fine particle is in direct contact with the toner base particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Maho Tanaka, Kunihiko Nakamura, Kenta Kamikura, Fumiya Hatakeyama, Akane Masumoto
  • Patent number: 10539899
    Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle that contains a binder resin, wherein the surface of the toner particle has a reaction product of a polyhydric acid and a compound that contains a group 4 element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihiko Nakamura, Kenta Kamikura, Maho Tanaka, Yusuke Kosaki
  • Patent number: 10539893
    Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin, wherein a layer comprising an organosilicon condensate is present on the surface of the toner particle; the layer comprising the organosilicon condensate further comprises a reaction product of a compound comprising at least one metal element selected from all the metal elements belonging to Groups 3 to 13, and a polyhydric acid; in a backscattered electron image of the toner captured at a magnification of 50,000 times by using a scanning electron microscope, an average value of an area of the reaction product is from 10 nm2 to 5000 nm2, and a coefficient of variation of the area of the reaction product is not more than 10.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Maho Tanaka, Kunihiko Nakamura, Kenta Kamikura, Yusuke Kosaki
  • Publication number: 20190271926
    Abstract: A toner including: a toner particle including a toner base particle containing a binder resin, and an organosilicon condensate present on a surface of the toner base particle, wherein a charge attenuation constant of the toner is 3.5×10?3 or more to 1.0×100 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Kenta Kamikura, Kunihiko Nakamura, Maho Tanaka, Fumiya Hatakeyama
  • Patent number: 10401750
    Abstract: Provided is a toner comprising a toner particle including a toner base particle and fine particles present on a surface of the toner base particle, wherein each of the fine particles includes a core fine particle and a condensate of at least one organosilicon compound selected from the group consisting of organosilicon compounds represented by specific structural formulas, the condensate coating the surface of the core fine particle, and in a wettability test of the toner with respect to a methanol/water mixed solvent, a methanol concentration, when a transmittance of light having a wavelength of 780 nm is 50%, is 5.0 to 20.0% by volume: in above Formulas, each of Ra, Rb and Rc independently represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an acetoxy group, an acyl group, an aryl group, or a methacryloxyalkyl group, R1 to R5 each independently represents a halogen atom or an alkoxy group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihiko Nakamura, Kenta Kamikura, Maho Tanaka, Fumiya Hatakeyama
  • Publication number: 20190235407
    Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle that contains a binder resin, wherein the surface of the toner particle has a reaction product of a polyhydric acid and a compound that contains a group 4 element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Kunihiko Nakamura, Kenta Kamikura, Maho Tanaka, Yusuke Kosaki
  • Publication number: 20190235404
    Abstract: A toner having a toner particle having a plurality of fine particles on the surface of a toner base particle, the toner base particle contains a binder resin, wherein a fine particle layer A constituted of a plurality of the fine particles is observed in an EDX mapping image of the constituent elements in a cross section of the toner particle as provided by EDX of the toner particle cross section observed using TEM; a fine particle B, containing a metal compound containing at least one metal element M selected from all the metal elements belonging to Groups 3 to 13, is observed in the fine particle layer A; and the number-average particle diameter D of the fine particle B, the average value H of the thickness of the fine particle layer A, and the standard deviation S on the thickness of the fine particle layer A satisfy prescribed relationships.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Kenta Kamikura, Kunihiko Nakamura, Maho Tanaka, Yusuke Kosaki
  • Publication number: 20190235403
    Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin, wherein a layer comprising an organosilicon condensate is present on the surface of the toner particle; the layer comprising the organosilicon condensate further comprises a reaction product of a compound comprising at least one metal element selected from all the metal elements belonging to Groups 3 to 13, and a polyhydric acid; in a backscattered electron image of the toner captured at a magnification of 50,000 times by using a scanning electron microscope, an average value of an area of the reaction product is from 10 nm2 to 5000 nm2, and a coefficient of variation of the area of the reaction product is not more than 10.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Maho Tanaka, Kunihiko Nakamura, Kenta Kamikura, Yusuke Kosaki
  • Patent number: 10353308
    Abstract: Provided is a toner, including a toner particle containing a toner base particle and a fine particle, wherein the fine particle includes a composite particle each having a surface covered with a condensation product of at least one kind of organosilicon compound selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by the following formula (1) and a compound represented by the following formula (2), wherein the fine particle is stuck in a state of being embedded in a surface of the toner base particle, and wherein a coverage of a composition containing the organosilicon compound with respect to the surface of the toner base particle excluding the fine particle is 0.1% by area or more and 40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumiya Hatakeyama, Kunihiko Nakamura, Kenta Kamikura, Maho Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10345726
    Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a toner including a toner particle containing a binder resin, the method including: process 1: preparing a mixed solution including the following components i) to iii) in an aqueous medium: i) a particular silicon compound, ii) a fine particle having a number average particle diameter of 3 nm or more and 500 nm or less, and iii) a toner base particle containing the binder resin; and process 2: adjusting a pH of the mixed solution to 7.0 or more and 12.0 or less to condense the silicon compound, wherein the fine particle has an absolute value of zeta potential of 10.0 mV or more at the pH of the mixed solution of process 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihiko Nakamura, Kenta Kamikura, Maho Tanaka, Fumiya Hatakeyama
  • Patent number: 10338487
    Abstract: A toner including: a toner particle including a toner base particle containing a binder resin, and an organosilicon condensate present on a surface of the toner base particle, wherein a charge attenuation constant of the toner is 3.5×10?3 or more to 1.0×100 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenta Kamikura, Kunihiko Nakamura, Maho Tanaka, Fumiya Hatakeyama
  • Patent number: 10310396
    Abstract: A first aspect is a toner production method in which an organosilicon compound is condensed in a surfactant-containing aqueous medium with a specific surface tension, in which a resin particle is dispersed, to produce a toner having the condensate of the organosilicon compound on the surface of the resin particle, and a second aspect is a toner production method in which an organosilicon compound is condensed in an aqueous medium which has a surfactant and a specific metal salt and in which a resin particle is dispersed, to produce a toner having the condensate of the organosilicon compound on the surface of the resin particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenta Kamikura, Kunihiko Nakamura, Maho Tanaka, Fumiya Hatakeyama
  • Publication number: 20180329329
    Abstract: Provided is a toner comprising a toner particle including a toner base particle and fine particles present on a surface of the toner base particle, wherein each of the fine particles includes a core fine particle and a condensate of at least one organosilicon compound selected from the group consisting of organosilicon compounds represented by specific structural formulas, the condensate coating the surface of the core fine particle, and in a wettability test of the toner with respect to a methanol/water mixed solvent, a methanol concentration, when a transmittance of light having a wavelength of 780 nm is 50%, is 5.0 to 20.0% by volume: in above Formulas, each of Ra, Rb and Rc independently represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an acetoxy group, an acyl group, an aryl group, or a methacryloxyalkyl group, R1 to R5 each independently represents a halogen atom or an alkoxy group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: KUNIHIKO NAKAMURA, Kenta Kamikura, Maho Tanaka, Fumiya Hatakeyama
  • Publication number: 20180329328
    Abstract: Provided is a toner, including a toner particle having: a toner base particle containing a binder resin and a colorant; and protrusion derived from a resin fine particle in a surface of the toner base particle, wherein the protrusion is covered with a condensation product of an organosilicon compound represented by the formula (1), and wherein the resin fine particle is in direct contact with the toner base particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Maho Tanaka, Kunihiko Nakamura, Kenta Kamikura, Fumiya Hatakeyama, Akane Masumoto
  • Publication number: 20180329325
    Abstract: Provided is a toner, including a toner particle containing a toner base particle and a fine particle, wherein the fine particle includes a composite particle each having a surface covered with a condensation product of at least one kind of organosilicon compound selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by the following formula (1) and a compound represented by the following formula (2), wherein the fine particle is stuck in a state of being embedded in a surface of the toner base particle, and wherein a coverage of a composition containing the organosilicon compound with respect to the surface of the toner base particle excluding the fine particle is 0.1% by area or more and 40.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Fumiya Hatakeyama, Kunihiko Nakamura, Kenta Kamikura, Maho Tanaka