Patents by Inventor Masahito Niwa

Masahito Niwa 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).

  • Patent number: 11964835
    Abstract: A medium feeding device includes a storage unit that stores media in a form of a sheet, a delivery unit that is disposed downstream in a medium delivery direction relative to the media stored in the storage unit and that delivers the media individually, a transfer unit that is disposed above the storage unit and that adheres by suction to each of the media stored in the storage unit and transfers the media to the delivery unit, and a fluffing unit that is disposed beside the media stored in the storage unit in a direction intersecting the medium delivery direction. The fluffing unit fluffs an upper-side region of the media in a state of being separated, by blowing air toward a side of the media during a feeding job of the media and during a post-feeding period that is a predetermined period after completion of the feeding job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuichi Araki, Masahito Niwa
  • Patent number: 11926771
    Abstract: A double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape having excellent impact resistance, excellent reworkability, and excellent alcohol resistance. The double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape includes: a base material layer; and pressure-sensitive adhesive layers arranged on both surface sides of the base material layer, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layers are each formed from a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive composition contains at least one kind selected from the group consisting of a monomer component (m) and a polymer component (P) obtained by polymerizing the monomer component (m), wherein the monomer component (m) contains 50 wt % or more of butyl (meth)acrylate, wherein a ratio of a thickness of the base material layer to a total thickness of the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape is less than 35%, and wherein the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape has a force, which is generated at 100% strain at 23° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Fujita, Hiromichi Sumida, Masahito Niwa, Masataka Nishiwaki, Yasushi Buzojima
  • Patent number: 11891551
    Abstract: A double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape having excellent impact resistance, excellent reworkability, and excellent alcohol resistance. The double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape includes: a base material layer; and pressure-sensitive adhesive layers arranged on both surface sides of the base material layer, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layers are each formed from a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive composition contains at least one kind selected from the group consisting of a monomer component (m) and a polymer component (P) obtained by polymerizing the monomer component (m), wherein the monomer component (m) contains 50 wt % or more of butyl (meth)acrylate, wherein a ratio of a thickness of the base material layer to a total thickness of the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape is less than 35%, and wherein the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape has a force, which is generated at 100% strain at 23° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Fujita, Hiromichi Sumida, Masahito Niwa, Masataka Nishiwaki, Yasushi Buzojima
  • Patent number: 11802014
    Abstract: A sheet-shaped-medium feeder includes a housing, a mount portion that is disposed to be vertically movable in the housing and that receives sheet-shaped media, a lift that vertically raises or lowers the mount portion, a discharger that transports the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount portion to a transport portion by sucking the sheet-shaped media with a suction portion in order from an upper one of the sheet-shaped media, left and right side walls that come into contact with left and right edges, in a feed width, of the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount portion, left and right air outlets that are disposed in the left and right side walls, and blow air to the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount portion at the left and right edges in the feed width, left and right first limiters that are respectively disposed on the left and right side walls, and limit a height of at least one of the sheet-shaped media that floats with air blown by the left and right air outlets by coming into contact with an
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shoichi Maeda, Masahito Niwa, Yuichi Araki
  • Patent number: 11795016
    Abstract: A sheet-shaped-medium feeder includes a housing, a mount portion that is disposed to be vertically movable in the housing and that receives sheet-shaped media, a lift that vertically raises or lowers the mount portion, a discharger that transports the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount portion in order from an upper one of the sheet-shaped media, and first air outlets that blow air to the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount portion at left and right edges in a feed width of the sheet-shaped media. The mount portion is changeable to a long mount portion capable of receiving long sheet-shaped media by extending an end portion of the mount portion upstream from an unchanged position in a transportation direction of the sheet-shaped media, the end portion corresponding to an upstream end portion in the transportation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shoichi Maeda, Teruki Naganuma, Masahito Niwa, Yuichi Araki, Yoshiki Kimura
  • Publication number: 20230312278
    Abstract: A medium feeding device includes a container member that accommodates sheet media, a discharging member disposed further than the media accommodated in the container member in a discharging direction in which the media are discharged, a hand-over member disposed above the container member at a position closer to the discharging member, a floating device disposed on a side of the media accommodated in the container member, and an auxiliary suction member disposed above the container member on a side of the hand-over member opposite to a side closer to the discharging member in the discharging direction in which the media are discharged. The auxiliary suction member is disposed closer to the hand-over member than to an end portion of the media accommodated in the container member opposite to an end portion of the media located closer to the discharging member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Masahito NIWA, Yuya CHONABAYASHI, Tatsuya YAMASHITA, Junki KAZAMA, Megumi MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 11767184
    Abstract: A feeder includes a body, a mount portion disposed in the body to support from below part of recording media stacked thereon, a lift that raises the mount portion, a support portion connected to the body to support from below another part of the recording media while the mount portion is raised, the support portion being located higher than a position of a mount surface of the mount portion while the recording media are stacked on the mount portion, a blowing portion that blows air between the recording media stacked on the mount portion, and a transport portion that transports the recording media stacked on the mount portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shoichi Maeda, Masahito Niwa, Yuichi Araki, Yoshiki Kimura
  • Patent number: 11685622
    Abstract: A medium feeding device includes a storage unit that stores media in a form of a sheet, a delivery unit that is disposed downstream in a medium delivery direction relative to the media stored in the storage unit and that delivers the media individually, a transfer unit that is disposed above the storage unit and that sticks by suction to each of the media stored in the storage unit and transfers the media to the delivery unit individually, and a fluffing unit that is disposed beside the media stored in the storage unit in a direction intersecting the medium delivery direction. The fluffing unit fluffs an upper-side region of the media in a state of being separated by blowing air toward a side of the media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Masahito Niwa, Yuichi Araki, Shoichi Maeda
  • Publication number: 20230071452
    Abstract: A double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape includes an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive, wherein the acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive is formed from an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, wherein the acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition contains an acrylic partially polymerized product obtained by polymerizing a monomer component (m1), a monomer component (m2), a cross-linking agent, and a photopolymerization initiator, wherein the monomer component (m2) contains an alkyl (meth)acrylate having, at an ester terminal thereof, an alkyl group having 4 to 10 carbon atoms, and a polymerizable monomer whose corresponding homopolymer has a Tg of 0° C. or more, wherein in the monomer component (m2), a content of the polymerizable monomer whose corresponding homopolymer has a Tg of 0° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junji FUKUHARA, Masahito NIWA, Toru ISEKI, Ryosuke YOKOKAWA
  • Patent number: 11565899
    Abstract: A recording-material-transporting device includes a suction unit that suctions a recording material included in a recording-material stack from above, the suction unit including a movable member that moves upward when pushed from below by the recording material moving upward with the suction, the suction unit being movable in an intersecting direction intersecting a vertical direction and moving the suctioned recording material in the intersecting direction, at least a part of the movable member serving as an outside advancing part that advances to an outside of a perimeter of the recording-material stack with the movement of the suction unit in the intersecting direction; and a restricting part that restricts a downward movement of the outside advancing part when the outside advancing part is free of support by the recording material from below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Masahito Niwa
  • Patent number: 11565897
    Abstract: A sheet feeder including: a housing including a mount portion that receives recording media; an open-close portion that is disposed on an upper surface of the housing to close the mount portion and rotates about a first hinge to open or close a mount space over the mount portion; and a manual insertion portion at least part of which is disposed on the open-close portion to receive manually inserted recording media, the manual insertion portion being rotatable about the first hinge or a second hinge disposed parallel to the first hinge to rotate upward from a position where the manual insertion portion overlaps the open-close portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shoichi Maeda, Masahito Niwa, Yuichi Araki, Yoshiki Kimura, Misaki Suruga
  • Publication number: 20220389283
    Abstract: A double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive includes an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive, wherein the acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive is formed from an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, wherein the acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition contains an acrylic partially polymerized product obtained by polymerizing a monomer component (m1), a monomer component (m2), a cross-linking agent, and a photopolymerization initiator, wherein the monomer component (m2) contains an alkyl (meth)acrylate having, at an ester terminal thereof, an alkyl group having 4 to 10 carbon atoms, and a polymerizable monomer whose corresponding homopolymer has a Tg of 0° C. or more, and wherein in the monomer component (m2), a content of the polymerizable monomer whose corresponding homopolymer has a Tg of 0° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru ISEKI, Masahito NIWA, Junji FUKUHARA, Ryosuke YOKOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220389284
    Abstract: Provided is a double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape excellent in reworkability. A double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive, wherein the acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive is formed from an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, wherein the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape has a load at an elongation of 100% of 7 N/10 mm or less, and wherein the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape has a load at an elongation of 500% of 20 N/10 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru ISEKI, Masahito NIWA, Junji FUKUHARA, Ryosuke YOKOKAWA
  • Patent number: 11440759
    Abstract: A sheet transport device includes a processor configured to adjust movement of a transport unit that transports a sheet on the basis of a transport load of the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuichi Araki, Masahito Niwa
  • Patent number: 11377314
    Abstract: A sheet container includes a housing, a stacking part provided in the housing so that recording sheets are stacked on the stacking part, a contact part to be brought into contact with edges of the recording sheets in a length direction on the stacking part in an attached state in which the contact part is attached into the housing, a connection member connected to the stacking part or the housing and having an extension part longer than the stacking part in the length direction, and a retreater that retreats the contact part in the attached state from the extension part with the connection member connected to the stacking part or the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Masashi Ikeda, Masahito Niwa, Shoichi Maeda, Kiyoshi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220169895
    Abstract: Provided is a PSA sheet that allows reduction of the dependence on fossil-resource-based materials as the PSA sheet at large while having good processability. Provided is a PSA sheet having a substrate layer comprising a polyester resin, and a PSA layer placed on at least one face of the substrate layer. At least 50% of all carbons in the PSA layer are biomass-derived carbons. The polyester resin comprises biomass-derived carbons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeki WATANABE, Masahito NIWA
  • Patent number: 11339017
    Abstract: A recording-material-transporting device includes an attracting part to which a recording material is attracted from below, and a blowing device that blows air from a position higher than the attracting part to an edge of the recording material attracted to the attracting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Masahito Niwa
  • Publication number: 20220146454
    Abstract: An objective is to provide a method for judging the authenticity of a product or component. Provided is a method for judging product or component authenticity. The method includes a step of determining the percentage of radioactive carbon-14 based on ASTM 6866 with respect to at least one constituent that a product or component of interest obtained has. Here, at least one constituent that an authentic product or component has and that corresponds to the constituent of the product or component of interest includes a resin comprising a prescribed percentage of radioactive carbon-14.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeki WATANABE, Masahito NIWA, Yuki TSUBAKI
  • Patent number: 11319462
    Abstract: The pressure sensitive adhesive sheet is a sheet shaped pressure sensitive adhesive including an acryl-based base polymer. The acryl-based base polymer contains an acryl-based segment and a urethane-based segment, and a content of the urethane-based segment is 3 to 30 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the acryl-based segment. The urethane-based segment includes at least one urethane chain selected from the group consisting of a polyether urethane and a polyester urethane. The content of the urethane-based segment other than the polyether urethane-based segment is 15 parts by weight or less based on 100 parts by weight of the acryl-based segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Itsuhiro Hatanaka, Masahito Niwa, Taiki Shimokuri, Shou Takarada, Takahiro Nonaka, Keisuke Hirano, Fumika Kawatake, Mika Ikemura
  • Patent number: 11319470
    Abstract: A pressure sensitive adhesive includes an acryl-based base polymer. The acryl-based base polymer contains an acryl-based segment and a urethane-based segment. In the acryl-based base polymer, the content of the urethane-based segment is 3 to 20 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the acryl-based segment. A pressure sensitive adhesive sheet can be obtained by applying a pressure sensitive adhesive composition on a substrate in a layer form. The pressure sensitive adhesive composition may be curable and may include a polymerization initiator. In formation of the pressure sensitive adhesive sheet, the curable pressure sensitive adhesive composition may be, as necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahito Niwa, Itsuhiro Hatanaka, Taiki Shimokuri, Shou Takarada, Takahiro Nonaka, Keisuke Hirano, Fumika Kawatake, Mika Ikemura