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).
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Publication number: 20220081233Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yuichi ARAKI, Masahito NIWA
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Publication number: 20220081236Abstract: A paper feeding apparatus includes: a paper feeder configured to feed out the uppermost paper included in a paper bundle; a blower configured to blow gas to a lateral side of the paper bundle; and a processor configured to reduce an amount of the gas blown to the lateral side when a predetermined specific condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.Inventors: Shoichi MAEDA, Masahito NIWA, Yuichi ARAKI
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Publication number: 20220081239Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.Inventors: Masahito NIWA, Yuichi ARAKI, Shoichi MAEDA
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Publication number: 20220081237Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Shoichi MAEDA, Teruki NAGANUMA, Masahito NIWA, Yuichi ARAKI, Yoshiki KIMURA
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Publication number: 20220082978Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Shoichi MAEDA, Masahito NIWA, Yuichi ARAKI, Yoshiki KIMURA
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Publication number: 20220081232Abstract: 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 includes line members to vertically raise or lower the mount portion by hanging the mount portion with the line members, and a discharger that transports the sheet-shaped media stacked on the mount portion. The mount portion is changeable to a long mount portion capable of receiving long sheet-shaped media by extending, further upstream in a transportation direction of the sheet-shaped media, an upstream end portion of the mount portion in the transportation direction of the sheet-shaped media. The lift has the line members attached at a portion of the long mount portion corresponding to an unchanged portion of the mount portion, and at a portion of the long mount portion corresponding to an extended portion of the mount portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Shoichi MAEDA, Masahito NIWA, Teruki NAGANUMA, Yuichi ARAKI, Yoshiki KIMURA, Yohei ONOUE
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Publication number: 20220081235Abstract: 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 anType: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Shoichi MAEDA, Masahito NIWA, Yuichi ARAKI
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Publication number: 20220063937Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Shoichi MAEDA, Masahito NIWA, Yuichi ARAKI, Yoshiki KIMURA, Misaki SURUGA
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Patent number: 11261350Abstract: Provided is a novel double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape that has excellent impact resistance and preferably further has excellent oil resistance. The double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape has a local maximum value of a loss tangent tan ? of 1.5 or more, and a temperature at which the local maximum value is obtained, of from ?30° C. to 0° C.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Masahito Niwa, Hiroki Kigami
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Publication number: 20210237993Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2020Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventor: Masahito NIWA
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Publication number: 20210237996Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2020Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuichi ARAKI, Masahito NIWA
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Publication number: 20210189190Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya FUJITA, Hiromichi Sumida, Masahito Niwa, Masataka Nishiwaki, Yasushi Buzojima
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Publication number: 20210189189Abstract: Provided is a double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape that can express both of excellent impact resistance and excellent reworkability. The pressure-sensitive adhesive tape includes: a base material layer; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer arranged on at least one side of the base material layer, wherein the base material layer has a specific gravity of 0.8 g/cm3 or more, and wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive tape has a 100% modulus at 23° C. and 50% RH of 50 MPa or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Masahito NIWA, Takuya FUJITA, Hiromichi SUMIDA
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Publication number: 20210171809Abstract: A laminate including a laminated structure of a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet, a reinforcing agent layer, and an adherend, the laminate being capable of expressing both of a high adhesive strength and high water resistance. The laminate shows an adhesive strength of 20 N/20 mm or more when the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet is peeled from a laminated structural body where the adherend is a SUS plate, the laminate shows an adhesive strength of 20 N/20 mm or more when the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet is peeled from a laminated structural body where the adherend is a polycarbonate plate, and the laminate shows an adhesive strength of 20 N/20 mm or more when the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet is peeled from a laminated structural body where the adherend is an aluminum plate at 23° C. and 50% RH, and at a tensile rate of 300 mm/min and a peel angle of 180°.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2020Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromichi SUMIDA, Takuya FUJITA, Masahito NIWA
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Publication number: 20210171806Abstract: A method of producing a laminate including a laminated structure of a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet, a reinforcing agent layer, and an adherend, the laminate being capable of expressing high impact resistance even when the thickness of the reinforcing agent layer is small, and/or being capable of expressing a high adhesive strength. The method of producing a laminate includes: a step (I) of applying an aqueous paint containing a reinforcing agent and an aqueous medium to a surface of the adherend to form the reinforcing agent layer; and a step (II) of bonding the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet to a surface of the reinforcing agent layer thus formed, the aqueous paint containing, in 100 parts by weight thereof, 6 parts by weight to 98 parts by weight of an alcohol.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2020Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromichi SUMIDA, Takuya FUJITA, Masahito NIWA
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Publication number: 20210170729Abstract: A laminate including a laminated structure of a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet, a reinforcing agent layer, and an adherend. The laminate expresses both of a high adhesive strength and high impact resistance. The laminate shows an adhesive strength of 20 N/20 mm or more when the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet is peeled from a laminated structural body where the adherend is a SUS plate, the laminate shows an adhesive strength of 20 N/20 mm or more when the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet is peeled from a laminated structural body where the adherend is a polycarbonate plate, and the laminate shows an adhesive strength of 20 N/20 mm or more when the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet is peeled from a laminated structural body where the adherend is an aluminum plate at 23° C. and 50% RH, and at a tensile rate of 300 mm/min and a peel angle of 180°.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2020Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromichi SUMIDA, Takuya FUJITA, Masahito NIWA
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Publication number: 20210171300Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2020Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventor: Masahito NIWA
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Publication number: 20210170720Abstract: A laminate including a laminated structure of a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet, a reinforcing agent layer, and an adherend. The laminate expresses all of a higher adhesive strength, higher impact resistance, and higher water resistance. The laminate shows an adhesive strength of 20 N/20 mm or more when the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet is peeled from a laminated structural body where the adherend is a SUS plate, the laminate shows an adhesive strength of 20 N/20 mm or more when the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet is peeled from a laminated structural body where the adherend is a polycarbonate plate, and the laminate shows an adhesive strength of 20 N/20 mm or more when the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet is peeled from a laminated structural body where the adherend is an aluminum plate at 23° C. and 50% RH, and at a tensile rate of 300 mm/min and a peel angle of 180.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2020Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromichi SUMIDA, Takuya FUJITA, Masahito NIWA
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Publication number: 20210061592Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Masashi IKEDA, Masahito NIWA, Shoichi MAEDA, Kiyoshi WATANABE
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Publication number: 20210032503Abstract: Provided is a double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape that can express excellent impact resistance. The double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape is a double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape for use in fixing a member to be included in a mobile device, the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape including a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is formed from a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, and wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive composition contains an organic hollow filler.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya FUJITA, Naohiro KATO, Masahito NIWA, Yasushi BUZOJIMA