Patents by Inventor Makoto Tamura
Makoto Tamura 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: 6592056Abstract: A gluing device having therein a pressuring means which presses a glue container containing a liquid glue to eject contained glue from an ejection opening, a supply tube through which the ejected glue is transported from the glue container, a connecting means on the glue container side which connects the supply tube to the glue container, a connecting means on the supply tube side which detachably connects the connecting means on the glue container side to the supply tube, and a glue discharging means which receives the glue transported through the supply tube and delivers them from a nozzle opening, wherein there is provided a valve member provided inside the connecting means on the glue container side that makes the ejection opening to be opened and closed, and a protrusion is provided inside the connecting means on the supply tube side so that the protrusion presses the valve member to open the ejection opening when the connecting means on the supply tube side is connected to the connecting means on the suType: GrantFiled: June 28, 2001Date of Patent: July 15, 2003Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Mikihiro Yamakawa, Tsuyoshi Tsuchiya, Katsunori Takahashi, Toshio Shida, Makoto Tamura, Toshitaka Matsumoto, Hitoshi Tamura
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Patent number: 6575447Abstract: A sheet cutter for finishing a booklet by cutting, with a cutter, edges of a bundle of sheets folded double, wherein it is possible to load booklets on a booklet stand of a booklet storing section that stores a plurality of booklets which have been subjected to cutting processing, by overlapping sheet faces, with a folded portion of each booklet facing upward.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2001Date of Patent: June 10, 2003Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Kohji Yoshie, Masato Hattori, Shinji Yashiro, Hirohiko Okabe, Hirotaka Kataoka, Makoto Tamura, Tadahiro Takahashi
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Patent number: 6540488Abstract: A slant plate-type variable displacement compressor includes a housing enclosing a crank chamber, a suction chamber, and a discharge chamber. The housing includes a cylinder block, and cylinder bores are formed therein. Pistons are slidably disposed within the cylinder bores. A valve member is disposed in a first passage, which communicates between a discharge side of the cylinder bore and the crank chamber. The valve member is controlled by a suction pressure of the cylinder bore. A second passage communicates between the crank chamber and a suction side of the cylinder bore through an orifice for allowing pressure to release. A cross-sectional area of the orifice is variably controlled, such that when compressor operation begins, the cross-sectional area of the orifice is greater than that during a capacity control operation.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2001Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignee: Sanden CorporationInventors: Kazuhiko Takai, Makoto Tamura
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Patent number: 6354059Abstract: A sheet finisher includes: a stacking member for aligning a plurality of recording sheets each on which an image has been recorded and for stacking the plurality of recording sheets thereon; a cover sheet feeding member having a cover sheet loading section for loading a cover sheet, for feeding the cover sheet stacked on the cover sheet loading section to the stacking member; a stapling member for stapling the cover sheet and the recording sheets stacked on the stacking member; and a folding member for folding the cover sheet and the recording sheets into two. The cover sheet feeding member, the stacking member and the folding member are substantially vertically arranged in the order from an upper portion to a lower portion of the sheet finisher.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1999Date of Patent: March 12, 2002Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Kohji Yoshie, Hiroyuki Wakabayashi, Masato Hattori, Teruhiko Toyoizumi, Masaru Ohtsuka, Tetsuhiro Kodera, Makoto Tamura
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Publication number: 20020002943Abstract: A gluing device having therein a pressuring means which presses a glue container containing a liquid glue to eject contained glue from an ejection opening, a supply tube through which the ejected glue is transported from the glue container, a connecting means on the glue container side which connects the supply tube to the glue container, a connecting means on the supply tube side which detachably connects the connecting means on the glue container side to the supply tube, and a glue discharging means which receives the glue transported through the supply tube and delivers them from a nozzle opening, wherein there is provided a valve member provided inside the connecting means on the glue container side that makes the ejection opening to be opened and closed, and a protrusion is provided inside the connecting means on the supply tube side so that the protrusion presses the valve member to open the ejection opening when the connecting means on the supply tube side is connected to the connecting means on the suType: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2001Publication date: January 10, 2002Applicant: Konica CorporationInventors: Mikihiro Yamakawa, Tsuyoshi Tsuchiya, Katsunori Takahashi, Toshio Shida, Makoto Tamura, Toshitaka Matsumoto, Hitoshi Tamura
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Publication number: 20010046444Abstract: A slant plate-type variable displacement compressor includes a housing enclosing a crank chamber, a suction chamber, and a discharge chamber. The housing includes a cylinder block, and cylinder bores are formed therein. Pistons are slidably disposed within the cylinder bores. A valve member is disposed in a first passage, which communicates between a discharge side of the cylinder bore and the crank chamber. The valve member is controlled by a suction pressure of the cylinder bore. A second passage communicates between the crank chamber and a suction side of the cylinder bore through an orifice for allowing pressure to release. A cross-sectional area of the orifice is variably controlled, such that when compressor operation begins, the cross-sectional area of the orifice is greater than that during a capacity control operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2001Publication date: November 29, 2001Inventors: Kazuhiko Takai, Makoto Tamura
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Publication number: 20010019191Abstract: A sheet cutter for finishing a booklet by cutting, with a cutter, edges of a bundle of sheets folded double, wherein it is possible to load booklets on a booklet stand of a booklet storing section that stores a plurality of booklets which have been subjected to cutting processing, by overlapping sheet faces, with a folded portion of each booklet facing upward.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2001Publication date: September 6, 2001Inventors: Kohji Yoshie, Masato Hattori, Shinji Yashiro, Hirohiko Okabe, Hirotaka Kataoka, Makoto Tamura, Tadahiro Takahashi
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Patent number: 6117534Abstract: A reinforcement for composite materials is disclosed, which comprises a number of filaments of inorganic long fiber and glass and/or glass ceramic present in the gaps among the filaments and having a wire or tape form. Also disclosed is a metallic or ceramic composite material composed of a plurality of the reinforcements and a metal or intermetallic compound or ceramic which is present in the gaps among the individual reinforcements.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 1999Date of Patent: September 12, 2000Assignee: Research Institute of Advanced Material Gas-Generator, Ltd.Inventors: Takemi Yamamura, Mitsuhiko Sato, Makoto Tamura, Shinji Kajii, Yasuo Matsumori, Yoshikatu Harada
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Patent number: 6004671Abstract: A reinforcement for composite materials is disclosed, which comprises a number of filaments of inorganic long fiber and glass and/or glass ceramic present in the gaps among the filaments and having a wire or tape form. Also disclosed is a metallic or ceramic composite material composed of a plurality of the reinforcements and a metal or intermetallic compound or ceramic which is present in the gaps among the individual reinforcements.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 1995Date of Patent: December 21, 1999Assignee: Research Institute of Advanced Material Gas-Generator, Ltd.Inventors: Takemi Yamamura, Mitsuhiko Sato, Makoto Tamura, Shinji Kajii, Yasuo Matsumori, Yoshikatu Harada
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Patent number: 5931455Abstract: A sheet feeder for feeding a sheet from a sheet stacker. The sheet feeder includes: a main body of the sheet stacker for holding plural stacked sheets; a movable bottom plate, provided on the bottom portion of the main body and supported bivotally on an axis, for supporting the plural stacked sheets; a lifting lever for lifting the movable bottom plate; and plural pickup rollers, aligned on an axis in a direction perpendicular to a sheet feeding direction, for having a pressure contact with a sheet of the plural stacked sheets on the movable bottom plate, and for feeding the sheet from the main body in the sheet feeding direction. In the sheet feeder, a protruded portion is formed either on the movable bottom plate or on the lifting lever so that a contact portion where the movable bottom plate comes in contact with the lifting lever is of a point contact, and the contact portion is provided at the center of the closest two of the pickup rollers in the direction of their axis.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1997Date of Patent: August 3, 1999Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Susumu Okui, Makoto Tamura
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Patent number: 5350743Abstract: A bisphosphonic acid derivative of the formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: ##STR1## wherein A is ##STR2## each of R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, which may be the same or different, is (i) a hydrogen atom, (ii) a C.sub.1-6 alkyl group, a C.sub.2-6 alkenyl group, a C.sub.2-6 alkynyl group, a C.sub.1-6 alkyl-carbonyl group, a C.sub.2-6 alkenyl-carbonyl group, a C.sub.2-6 alkynyl-carbonyl group R.sup.5 and R.sup.6, which may be the same or different, is a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a halogen atom, a cyano group, a carbamoyl group, an aralkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted amino group, a C.sub.1-6 alkyl group, a C.sub.2-6 alkenyl group, a C.sub.2-6 alkynyl group;each of m and n is 0 or a positive integer, provided that (m+n) is from 2 to 5; andR is a hydrogen atom, a C.sub.1-8 alkyl group or a C.sub.7-15 aralkyl group.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 1992Date of Patent: September 27, 1994Assignee: Kaken Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshitaka Ohishi, Makoto Tamura, Mitsuo Hayashida, Satoru Ikegami, Yoshiyuki Hiyama, Takao Awa, Kiyonoshin Ichikawa, Kiyoshi Nomiyama, Keigo Hanada, Mitsuo Mimura
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Patent number: 5267544Abstract: A crank angle and cylinder number detecting system for an engine has a disc secured to a camshaft of the engine and, a plurality of projections are formed on a periphery of the disc. A sensor is provided adjacent the disc so as to produce pulses. A pattern of interval arrangement of pulses is determined. From the determined pattern, a crank angle of the engine and a cylinder number are precisely determined in a short time.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 1992Date of Patent: December 7, 1993Assignees: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroya Ohkumo, Syuuzi Miyama, Masakatsu Fujishita, Makoto Tamura
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Patent number: 5207861Abstract: The high-strength and high-toughness sinter of the present invention includes a crystal agglomerate maintaining a fibrous shape and composed of crystals of SiC and MC.sub.1-x wherein M is Ti and/or Zr and x is a number of 0 or more but less than 1. This sinter is produced by laminating an inorganic fiber of a particular inorganic material containing titanium and/or zirconium molding the laminate into a predetermined shape, and conducting heat-sintering simultaneously with the molding or after the molding in an atmosphere of a vacuum, an inert gas, a reducing gas, or a hydrocarbon gas at a temperature of 1,700 to 2,200.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1990Date of Patent: May 4, 1993Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takemi Yamamura, Toshihiro Ishikawa, Makoto Tamura, Masaki Shibuya, Kiyohito Okamura, Mitsuhiko Sato
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Patent number: 5182011Abstract: Commercially attractive continuous processes for the preparation of mesophase pitches for manufacturing high-performance carbon fibers are disclosed. One feature resides in that conversion of a pitch into a mesophase pitch is conducted continuously by using a unique continuous dispersion-heat-treating apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 1990Date of Patent: January 26, 1993Assignee: Maruzen Petrochemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masatoshi Tsuchitani, Makoto Tamura, Kiyotaka Suzuki, Shuji Okada, Ryoichi Nakajima, Sakae Naito
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Patent number: 5091072Abstract: Commercially attractive continuous processes for the preparation of mesophase pitches for manufacturing high-performance carbon fibers are disclosed. One feature resides in that conversion of a pitch into a mesophase pitch is conducted continuously by using a unique continuous dispersion-heat-treating apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 1990Date of Patent: February 25, 1992Assignee: Maruzen Petrochemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masatoshi Tsuchitani, Makoto Tamura, Kiyotaka Suzuki, Sjuji Okada, Ryoichi Nakajima, Sakae Naito
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Patent number: 4990470Abstract: The high-strength and high-toughness sinter of the present invention comprises a crystal agglomerate maintaining a fibrous shape and composed of crystals of SiC and MC.sub.1-x wherein M is Ti and/or Zr and X is a number of 0 or more but less than 1. This sinter is produced by laminating an inorganic fiber comprising a particular inorganic material containing titanium and/or zirconium molding the laminate into a predetermined shape, and conducting heat-sintering simultaneously with the molding or after the molding in an atmosphere comprising at least one member selected from the group consisting of a vacuum, an inert gas, a reducing gas, and a hydrucoarbon gas at a temperature of 1,700.degree. to 2,200.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1988Date of Patent: February 5, 1991Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takemi Yamamura, Toshihiro Ishikawa, Makoto Tamura, Masaki Shibuya, Kiyohito Okamura, Mitsuhiko Sato
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Patent number: 4870464Abstract: A fixing device for use in a copying machine. The device has a heating roller, a pressure roller, and a separation pawl. The pawl has an end portion contacting the peripheral surface of the heating roller at a first point close to a second point where the pressure roller and the heating roller contact each other. The pawl separates a sheet, on which an image has been fixed, from the heating roller, and guides this sheet along a line tangent to the periphery of the heating roller and connected to the second point. The sheet is thus prevented from being deformed.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1987Date of Patent: September 26, 1989Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Keiji Itaya, Makoto Tamura
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Patent number: 4813372Abstract: A thermal roller for fixing a powdered toner image onto an image receiving sheet is provided with a sub-surface resistive heat generating layer adjacent the outer surface of the roller. The thickness of the heat generating layer or the materials that constitute the layer are controlled so that the resistance per unit length of the thermal roller increases gradually in the axial direction from the center portion thereof toward and to both ends. Electrical energy passed through the heat generating layer generates a desired temperature distribution profile along the roller to provide appropriate fixing temperatures, without excessively increasing the temperature at both ends of the roller.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 1987Date of Patent: March 21, 1989Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Mitutosi Kogure, Yuka Nakamura, Makoto Tamura
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Patent number: 4804995Abstract: A developing apparatus for developing a charged latent image formed on a photosensitive drum with a developer including toners and carriers comprises a casing for holding the developer, a developing roller for carrying the developer supplied from the casing, and conveying the developer from the casing to the photosensitive drum so as to develop the charged latent image formed on the photosensitive drum with the developer, a doctor blade for controlling the thickness of the developer carried on the developiung roller to a predetermined value, a scraper for removing the developer which keeps on being carried on the developing roller after the end of developing operation, and returning the removed developer into the casing, and a toner removing member for removing toners, directly attached on the developing roller, from the developing roller, the toner removing member being provided independent of the developer removing scraper.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 1986Date of Patent: February 14, 1989Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shigenobu Osawa, Taiichi Kawaguchi, Makoto Tamura, Hideyuki Shinohara
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Patent number: 4801968Abstract: A fixing device for image forming apparatus utilizing image forming media of a plurality of different widths, comprises a core roller and a supporting roller parallel to and in contact with the core roller to supports the selected one of the image forming media with the toner image thereon and transporting the selected image forming medium, an electrically resistive heat layer on the core roller and a plurality of power supply electrodes for supplying power to at least two portions of the electrically resistive heat layer having sizes corresponding to the widths of at least two of the image forming media.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 1987Date of Patent: January 31, 1989Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Mitutosi Kogure, Yuka Nakamura, Makoto Tamura, Keiji Itaya