Patents by Inventor Masafumi KUDO

Masafumi KUDO 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: 20230367241
    Abstract: A developing device includes: a rotating member that delivers a developer to an image holding body while rotating, and has a minimum distance with a housing at a portion from delivery of the developer to the image holding body to release of the developer as viewed in an axial direction of the rotation; a supply member that extends in the axial direction, is disposed diagonally below the rotating member as viewed from the axial direction, and transports the developer while rotating to supply the developer to the rotating member; and a pair of flow path walls that are disposed above the supply member and sandwich a flow path connecting from an inside to an outside of the housing in an upward-downward direction, the flow path having a first flow path width of an inner flow path opening on an inner side of the housing in the flow path as viewed from the axial direction equal to or larger than the minimum distance, and a second flow path width of an outer flow path opening on an outer side of the housing in the fl
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Masayuki SHIMODA, Masafumi KUDO
  • Publication number: 20220087587
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a preparation device configured to prepare information on a posture of a body; a myoelectric potential meter configured to measure a myoelectric potential from a surface of the body; and a processor configured to acquire the information on the posture prepared by the preparation device, acquire information on the myoelectric potential measured by the myoelectric potential meter, specify a movement of the body based on the acquired information on the posture, estimate a muscle activity state required for a muscle to implement the specified movement, and output information indicating a difference between (i) a muscle activity state determined based on the myoelectric potential and (ii) the estimated muscle activity state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Masafumi KUDO, Junji HANATANI
  • Patent number: 10969770
    Abstract: An inspection information prediction apparatus includes an environment-information acquisition unit that acquires environment information of a routing step through which an inspection target has been routed before an inspection step of inspecting the inspection target, a manufacturing-information acquisition unit that acquires manufacturing information of the inspection target, and a prediction unit that predicts inspection information which indicates an inspection result of an inspection portion of the inspection target determined by the manufacturing information and is obtained by applying the environment information, based on the manufacturing information of the inspection target and the environment information of the routing step through which the inspection target has been routed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Hatakeyama, Nobuhide Inaba, Shuhei Kobayakawa, Masafumi Kudo
  • Publication number: 20200096979
    Abstract: An inspection information prediction apparatus includes an environment-information acquisition unit that acquires environment information of a routing step through which an inspection target has been routed before an inspection step of inspecting the inspection target, a manufacturing-information acquisition unit that acquires manufacturing information of the inspection target, and a prediction unit that predicts inspection information which indicates an inspection result of an inspection portion of the inspection target determined by the manufacturing information and is obtained by applying the environment information, based on the manufacturing information of the inspection target and the environment information of the routing step through which the inspection target has been routed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi HATAKEYAMA, Nobuhide INABA, Shuhei KOBAYAKAWA, Masafumi KUDO
  • Publication number: 20180259902
    Abstract: A developing device includes a developing unit, a rotating member that rotates in a predetermined direction to generate an airflow in a space that accommodates the developing unit, and first and second partitioning members. The first partitioning member is disposed between the developing unit and the rotating member, and has first and second openings that are each provided with an opening-closing mechanism and respectively disposed at upstream and downstream sides in a direction of the airflow generated when the rotating member rotates in the predetermined direction. The second partitioning member is disposed between the developing unit and an external space, and has third and fourth openings that are each provided with an opening-closing mechanism and respectively disposed at downstream and upstream sides in the direction of the airflow generated when the rotating member rotates in the predetermined direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya TAMURA, Koji UDAGAWA, Masafumi KUDO
  • Patent number: 10073415
    Abstract: A developing device includes a developing unit, a rotating member that rotates in a predetermined direction to generate an airflow in a space that accommodates the developing unit, and first and second partitioning members. The first partitioning member is disposed between the developing unit and the rotating member, and has first and second openings that are each provided with an opening-closing mechanism and respectively disposed at upstream and downstream sides in a direction of the airflow generated when the rotating member rotates in the predetermined direction. The second partitioning member is disposed between the developing unit and an external space, and has third and fourth openings that are each provided with an opening-closing mechanism and respectively disposed at downstream and upstream sides in the direction of the airflow generated when the rotating member rotates in the predetermined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Tamura, Koji Udagawa, Masafumi Kudo
  • Patent number: 10042323
    Abstract: A developing device includes a developing unit; an airflow generator that generates an airflow in a space accommodating the developing unit; a partitioning member that has at least two openings located upstream of the developing unit in a direction of the airflow and that divides a region in which the developing unit is present from a region in which the developing unit is not present, the two openings being located at an upstream position and a downstream position in the direction of the airflow, at least the opening at the upstream position being provided with an opening-closing mechanism; and an element that performs at least an exothermic process in the space accommodating the developing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Tamura, Masafumi Kudo, Koji Udagawa
  • Patent number: 10001747
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a fusing unit that heats a toner image and fixes the toner image on a recording medium; an exhaust passage that allows air heated by the fusing unit to flow and discharges the air to an outside of the apparatus; a delivery unit that moves the air in the exhaust passage in a discharge direction; a target structural component to which the air is to be delivered; a ventilation passage that connects a portion on a downstream side of the delivery unit of the exhaust passage in the discharge direction and the target structural component, and that allows the air to flow; and an adjuster that adjusts a passage through which the air flows, at a branch point between the exhaust passage and the ventilation passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Tamura, Masafumi Kudo, Koji Udagawa
  • Patent number: 9904246
    Abstract: A blowing tube is provided and includes: a passage portion and plural restriction portions. The passage portion includes an inlet passage portion including a first passage space, a first bent passage portion including a second passage space, and a second bent passage portion including a third passage space. One of the restriction portions includes a plate-shaped blocking portion and an air passage portion disposed between one end of the blocking portion and an inner wall surface on an inner side of the second passage space of the first bent passage portion in the bent direction of the second bent passage portion. A bar-shaped member is provided in the third passage space and present in an isolated manner along a longitudinal direction of an opening of the air passage portion of the restriction portion. The air flowing out through the air passage portion collides against the bar-shaped member and diverges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Kudo, Yasunori Momomura, Yuki Nagamori
  • Patent number: 9869968
    Abstract: There is provided blowing tube. A plurality of flow control members are provided in portions of a passage space of a passage portion which are positioned at different positions in an airflow direction, and control a flow of air. One of the flow control members is provided as a downstream-most flow control member such that the outlet port is blocked by a multi-hole member having a plurality of air holes. Each of the air holes of the downstream-most flow control member is configured as a through hole such that the opening area of the through hole decreases continuously or in a stepwisely toward the downstream side in an air passing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Nagamori, Yasunori Momomura, Masafumi Kudo, Yu Tsuda, Yasunori Unagida, Mihoko Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20170277121
    Abstract: There is provided blowing tube. A plurality of flow control members are provided in portions of a passage space of a passage portion which are positioned at different positions in an airflow direction, and control a flow of air. One of the flow control members is provided as a downstream-most flow control member such that the outlet port is blocked by a multi-hole member having a plurality of air holes. Each of the air holes of the downstream-most flow control member is configured as a through hole such that the opening area of the through hole decreases continuously or in a stepwisely toward the downstream side in an air passing direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki NAGAMORI, Yasunori MOMOMURA, Masafumi KUDO, Yu TSUDA, Yasunori UNAGIDA, Mihoko TANAKA
  • Patent number: 9766570
    Abstract: A blower duct includes a path section and multiple suppressing sections. The path section connects an inlet and an outlet and allows air to flow therethrough. The suppressing sections are provided at different locations in the air flowing direction and suppress the flow of the air. The path section at least has an entrance path section and a first bent path section. One of the suppressing sections is a first suppressing section including a blocking portion and openings. The blocking portion is disposed in the first bent path section and blocks the flow of the air. The openings are disposed at different positions in one direction and include a first opening disposed closest to the inlet at a first height position where a height from a reference base surface of the first bent path section is larger than the remaining opening or openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Momomura, Yuki Nagamori, Masafumi Kudo
  • Publication number: 20170242362
    Abstract: A blower duct includes a path section and multiple suppressing sections. The path section connects an inlet and an outlet and allows air to flow therethrough. The suppressing sections are provided at different locations in the air flowing direction and suppress the flow of the air. The path section at least has an entrance path section and a first bent path section. One of the suppressing sections is a first suppressing section including a blocking portion and openings. The blocking portion is disposed in the first bent path section and blocks the flow of the air. The openings are disposed at different positions in one direction and include a first opening disposed closest to the inlet at a first height position where a height from a reference base surface of the first bent path section is larger than the remaining opening or openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori MOMOMURA, Yuki NAGAMORI, Masafumi KUDO
  • Publication number: 20170242397
    Abstract: A blowing tube is provided and includes: a passage portion and plural restriction portions. The passage portion includes an inlet passage portion including a first passage space, a first bent passage portion including a second passage space, and a second bent passage portion including a third passage space. One of the restriction portions includes a plate-shaped blocking portion and an air passage portion disposed between one end of the blocking portion and an inner wall surface on an inner side of the second passage space of the first bent passage portion in the bent direction of the second bent passage portion. A bar-shaped member is provided in the third passage space and present in an isolated manner along a longitudinal direction of an opening of the air passage portion of the restriction portion. The air flowing out through the air passage portion collides against the bar-shaped member and diverges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi KUDO, Yasunori MOMOMURA, Yuki NAGAMORI
  • Patent number: 9658558
    Abstract: Provided is a blower pipe with an inlet, an outlet, a passage part formed with a passage space to cause air to flow therein, and suppressing parts that are provided in different parts in a direction in which air in the passage space of the passage part is caused to flow and that suppress the flow of the air, wherein an outlet suppressing part constructed so that the passage space in the outlet is closed by a permeable member dotted with ventilation portions is provided in the outlet of the passage part as one of the suppressing parts, and wherein the permeability of an end region present at least at one end in the lateral direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction among regions along the longitudinal direction of the opening shape of the outlet is set to a smaller value than the permeability of regions other than the end region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Kudo, Koji Otsuka, Yuki Nagamori, Kazuki Inami, Yasunori Momomura
  • Patent number: 9557709
    Abstract: A blower duct includes a path section including an entrance path section having an inlet through which air is taken in, a first bent path section, and a second bent path section having an outlet facing a longitudinal-direction portion; a first flow control member that makes a portion of the path of the first bent path section narrower than other portion of the path and causes an elongated gap extending in the longitudinal direction to pass the air; and a second flow control member constituted of an air permeable member having air permeable sections at the outlet. One of the paths located downstream of the first flow control member in an air flowing direction is partially provided with an inclined inner wall surface that is inclined from above to extend toward an upper portion of a downstream opening end of the narrowed path in the first flow control member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Momomura, Yuki Nagamori, Yu Tsuda, Yasunori Unagida, Mihoko Tanaka, Masafumi Kudo
  • Patent number: 9335734
    Abstract: Provided is a suction pipe including a suction port that has an opening shape which is long in one direction parallel with a longitudinal-direction part of an object structure long in one direction, and is arranged to face the longitudinal-direction part of the object structure to suction the air, an exhaust port that has an opening shape which is different shape from the opening shape of the suction port, and suctions out the air suctioned from the suction port, a flow path that connects the suction port and the exhaust port and has at least one bended portion which bends an air flow direction, and at least one flow control members that are disposed at flow path in one direction parallel with the suction port, and controls a flow of the air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Nagamori, Yasunori Momomura, Masafumi Kudo, Kazuki Inami
  • Patent number: 9336466
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a first driving portion transporting a paper sheet; a printing portion being disposed on an upstream side of the first driving portion in a transporting direction of the transported paper sheet, including a plurality of aligned ejection ports ejecting liquid onto the transporting paper sheet to print an image on the paper sheet by the liquid; a drawing portion being disposed on an upstream side of the printing portion in the transporting direction, drawing the paper sheet of which a tip end is placed at a preset position, and feeding the paper sheet to a transporting path via the printing portion and the first driving portion; and a guiding portion being interposed between the printing portion and the first driving portion in the transporting direction, and when feeding the paper sheet, freely reciprocating between a first position and a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teruki Kishimoto, Yoshiyuki Taguchi, Shun Ikegami, Masafumi Kudo
  • Publication number: 20160070996
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a first driving portion transporting a paper sheet; a printing portion being disposed on an upstream side of the first driving portion in a transporting direction of the transported paper sheet, including a plurality of aligned ejection ports ejecting liquid onto the transporting paper sheet to print an image on the paper sheet by the liquid; a drawing portion being disposed on an upstream side of the printing portion in the transporting direction, drawing the paper sheet of which a tip end is placed at a preset position, and feeding the paper sheet to a transporting path via the printing, portion and the first driving portion; and a guiding portion being interposed between the printing portion and the first driving portion in the transporting direction, and when feeding the paper sheet, freely reciprocating between a first position and a second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Teruki KISHIMOTO, Yoshiyuki TAGUCHI, Shun IKEGAMI, Masafumi KUDO
  • Patent number: 9228592
    Abstract: Provided is a blowing device including a blower that sends air, a blower pipe having an inlet that takes in the air sent from the blower, an outlet that is formed in an elongated opening shape parallel to the portion of the target structure in the longitudinal direction, and a body portion that connects the inlet and the outlet and to cause the air to flow therethrough, and plural flow dividing plates, each of the flow dividing plates having a distributing portion and a changing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teruyo Ryuzaki, Yuki Nagamori, Kazuki Inami, Yasunori Momomura, Masafumi Kudo