Patents by Inventor Masahiro Iwasaki

Masahiro Iwasaki 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: 20240118636
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, an undercoat layer disposed on the conductive substrate, having a volume resistivity of 5.0×107 [?m] or more and 5.0×109 [?m] or less, and having a thickness of 20 ?m or more and 40 ?m or less, a charge generation layer disposed on the undercoat layer, and a charge transport layer disposed on the charge generation layer, having a volume resistivity of 1.0×1013 [?m] or more and 5.0×1014 [?m] or less, and having a thickness of 15 ?m or more and 40 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuki OYAMADA, Wataru Yamada, Masahiro Iwasaki, Keisuke Kusano, Akihiro Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20240118653
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor that includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate, the electrophotographic photoreceptor having an outermost surface layer that contains a binder resin, a charge-transporting material, and a fluorine-containing resin particle, the fluorine-containing resin particle containing 0 or more and 30 or less carboxy groups per 106 carbon atoms, a charging device that charges the electrophotographic photoreceptor, an electrostatic latent image forming device that forms an electrostatic latent image on the electrophotographic photoreceptor that is charged, a developing device that houses a developer containing a toner and that develops, with the developer, the electrostatic latent image formed on the electrophotographic photoreceptor into a toner image, a transfer device that transfers the toner image onto a transfer-receiving medium, and an optical discharging device that, after the toner image i
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Keisuke Kusano, Wataru Yamada, Masahiro Iwasaki, Akihiro Kawasaki, Yuki Oyamada
  • Patent number: 11946470
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus detecting presence or absence of abnormality of a vacuum pump derived from a product produced within a target vacuum pump, including: a determination unit configured to determine a normal variation range or a normal time variation behavior of a target state quantity which is a state quantity varying depending on a load of gas flowing into the vacuum pump, based on at least one of past target state quantities of the target vacuum pump or another vacuum pump; and a comparison unit configured to compare a current target state quantity of the target vacuum pump with the normal variation range or the normal time variation behavior and output the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiji Maishigi, Tetsuro Sugiura, Katsuaki Usui, Masahiro Hatakeyama, Chikako Honma, Toru Osuga, Koichi Iwasaki, Jie Yuan Lin
  • Publication number: 20240077079
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus detecting presence or absence of abnormality of a vacuum pump derived from a product produced within a target vacuum pump, including: a determination unit configured to determine a normal variation range or a normal time variation behavior of a target state quantity which is a state quantity varying depending on a load of gas flowing into the vacuum pump, based on at least one of past target state quantities of the target vacuum pump or another vacuum pump; and a comparison unit configured to compare a current target state quantity of the target vacuum pump with the normal variation range or the normal time variation behavior and output the comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Keiji MAISHIGI, Tetsuro SUGIURA, Katsuaki USUI, Masahiro HATAKEYAMA, Chikako HONMA, Toru OSUGA, Koichi IWASAKI, Jie Yuan LIN
  • Publication number: 20240027927
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, an undercoat layer provided on the conductive substrate and containing a binder resin and an n-type organic pigment, and a photosensitive layer provided on the undercoat layer, in which an amount of an Fe element in the undercoat layer that is detected by high-frequency inductively coupled plasma emission spectrometric analysis is 80 ppm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Masahiro IWASAKI, Yuki OYAMADA
  • Publication number: 20240030487
    Abstract: An electrode for an all-solid state battery contains composite particles of 100 parts by mass and an imidazoline-based compound of more than 0 parts by mass and 0.3 parts by mass or less. The composite particle includes a core particle and a coating layer. The coating layer covers at least a part of a surface of the core particle. The core particle contains an active material. The coating layer contains a fluoride solid electrolyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro IWASAKI, Kazuya HASHIMOTO, Izuru SASAKI, Yuta SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240012343
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, an undercoat layer disposed on the conductive substrate, and a photosensitive layer disposed on the undercoat layer, in which the undercoat layer contains an organic pigment and a binder resin and satisfies Expressions (A1) and (B1), ?r(Max)?7.0??Expression (A1) tan ?(Max)?0.5??Expression (B1) ?r (Max) represents a maximum value of a relative permittivity at a measurement frequency of 10 Hz to 3,000 Hz and tan ?(Max) represents a maximum value of a dielectric loss tangent at the measurement frequency of 10 Hz to 3,000 Hz, which are acquired by measuring an impedance of the undercoat layer at a temperature of 22° C. and a relative humidity of 50%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kota Maki, Masahiro Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20230333493
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive support; and an undercoat layer and a photosensitive layer stacked on the conductive support, in which the undercoat layer contains crystalline electron transport compound particles. In X-ray diffraction measurement performed on the undercoat layer in a thickness direction, a maximum intensity peak has a half-width of 5° or less, and a maximum value Nmax among orientation indices N expressed by equation (1) below is 1 or more and 3 or less: Orientation index = l 1 ? l 1 l 2 ? l 2 ­­­(1) where I1 represents a relative integral intensity of each of peaks in the X-ray diffraction measurement performed on the undercoat layer in the thickness direction, and I2 represents a relative integral intensity of each of peaks in X-ray diffraction measurement performed on the undercoat layer processed into a powder form having a volume-average particle diameter of 5 µm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuki Oyamada, Masahiro Iwasaki, Keisuke Kusano, Wataru Yamada, Tomoya Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20230251585
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, an undercoat layer on the conductive substrate, and a photosensitive layer on the undercoat layer, in which the undercoat layer is formed of a cured product of a composition that contains a reactive group-containing triarylamine compound, a curing agent, and an electron transport material and that has a butyral resin content of 0 mass % or more and 5 mass % or less relative to all solid components in the undercoat layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Masahiro IWASAKI, Yuki Oyamada, Keisuke Kusano, Wataru Yamada
  • Publication number: 20230251586
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive support, an undercoat layer on the conductive support, and a charge generation layer on the undercoat layer, in which the charge generation layer contains a phthalocyanine compound, the undercoat layer contains an electron transport compound, and a difference between an energy level of the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital of the phthalocyanine compound and an energy level of the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital of the electron transport compound is less than 0.45 eV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Keisuke KUSANO, Wataru Yamada, Masahiro Iwasaki, Yuki Oyamada
  • Patent number: 11691919
    Abstract: A powdered quick-setting agent containing a calcium aluminate and a sodium silicate, preferably further containing at least one selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal sulfate, an alkaline earth metal sulfate, and an aluminum sulfate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Denka Company Limited
    Inventors: Takamitsu Murokawa, Masahiro Iwasaki, Shunichi Mishima, Katsuichi Miyaguchi, Akitoshi Araki, Yasuhiro Ishii, Kenji Hatta, Takanori Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 11693329
    Abstract: A fluorine-containing resin particle contains 0 or more and 30 or less carboxyl groups per 106 carbon atoms and 0 ppm or more and 3 ppm or less of a basic compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Wataru Yamada, Masahiro Iwasaki, Ryosuke Fujii, Keisuke Kusano, Yuto Okazaki, Taisuke Fukui
  • Patent number: 11526092
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer on the conductive substrate. The outermost surface layer of the electrophotographic photoreceptor contains fluorine-containing resin particles, a fluorine graft polymer, and an acidic compound having an acid dissociation constant (pKa) of 3 or less in water at 25° C. The amount of the acidic compound relative to the outermost surface layer is 100 ppm or more and 10000 ppm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Masahiro Iwasaki, Wataru Yamada, Keisuke Kusano, Yuto Okazaki, Taisuke Fukui
  • Publication number: 20220308475
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoconductor includes a conductive substrate, and a photoconductive layer, in which an outermost surface layer contains a binder resin, a charge transporting material, fluorine-containing resin particles, and an acidic compound, the number of carboxyl groups in the fluorine-containing resin particles is 0 or more and 30 or less per 106 carbon atoms of the fluorine-containing resin particles, and in a case where charging and exposure of the electrophotographic photoconductor are repeated 10,000 times under conditions of a charging potential of ?700 V and an exposure intensity of 5 mJ/m2, an absolute value |RP1?RP10000| of a difference between a residual potential RP1 after charging and exposure once and a residual potential RP10000 after charging and exposure 10,000 times is 25 V or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Jiro KORENAGA KORENAGA, Shuhei Yamazaki, Satoshi Mizoguchi, Yoichi Kigoshi, Michinori Fukuma, Kosuke Narita, Masahiro Iwasaki, Keisuke Kusano
  • Patent number: 11435674
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer on the conductive substrate. The electrophotographic photoreceptor has an outermost surface layer that contains fluorine-containing resin particles and a fluorine-containing graft polymer. The fluorine-containing resin particles contain 0 or more and 30 or less carboxy groups per 106 carbon atoms. The outermost surface layer has a dielectric constant of 3.75 or more and 3.90 or less. The contact angle of pure water on the outermost surface layer is 90° or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuto Okazaki, Wataru Yamada, Masahiro Iwasaki, Keisuke Kusano, Taisuke Fukui
  • Patent number: 11394051
    Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a solid electrolyte with excellent ion conductivity. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a solid electrolyte comprising: a Li element, a P element, a S element, a Br element, and an I element; and crystal phase A having a peak at a position of 2?=20.2°±0.5°, 23.6°±0.5° in an X-ray diffraction measurement using a CuK? ray; wherein a crystallite size of the crystal phase A is 16.0 nm or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 11333987
    Abstract: A fluorine-containing resin particle contains 0 or more and 30 or less carboxyl groups per 106 carbon atoms and 0 ppm or more and 3 ppm or less of a basic compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Wataru Yamada, Masahiro Iwasaki, Ryosuke Fujii, Keisuke Kusano, Yuto Okazaki, Taisuke Fukui
  • Patent number: 11307508
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer on the conductive substrate. The electrophotographic photoreceptor has an outermost surface layer that contains fluorine-containing resin particles and an antioxidant. The fluorine-containing resin particles contain 0 or more and 30 or less carboxy groups per 106 carbon atoms. A decrease in weight of the antioxidant when heated at 150° C. for 10 minutes in an air atmosphere is 40 mass % or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Keisuke Kusano, Wataru Yamada, Masahiro Iwasaki, Yuto Okazaki
  • Publication number: 20220066335
    Abstract: A fluorine-containing resin particle contains 0 or more and 30 or less carboxyl groups per 106 carbon atoms and 0 ppm or more and 3 ppm or less of a basic compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Wataru YAMADA, Masahiro IWASAKI, Ryosuke FUJII, Keisuke KUSANO, Yuto OKAZAKI, Taisuke FUKUI
  • Patent number: 11251464
    Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an all solid state battery of which volume change due to charge and discharge is reduced. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an all solid state battery comprising a cathode layer, an anode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer formed between the cathode layer and the anode layer; wherein the anode layer contains a Si-based active material of which average particle size is less than 2.6 ?m, and a first solid electrolyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shizuka Fujino, Masahiro Iwasaki